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NEWSPAPER 




F D R. WHY WE FIGHT 



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SPOILING FOR ACTION U.S. gun battery in Australia 
ready for foe. "Let 'em come," they say, "we'll murder 'em." 



YANK The Army Newspaper ■ JUNE 17 




TO THE ARMED FORCES 
OF THE UNITED STATES 



President Roosevelt Greets Fighting Men 
On All Fronts Through First YANK Issue, 
Calls Them 'Delegates of Freedom/ 



THE WHITE HOUSE 

WASHINGTON 



May 28, 1942 



To you fighting men of our armed forces overseas your 
Commander in Chief sends greetings in this, the first issue of your 
own newspaper. 

In YANK you have established r> publication which cannot be 
understood by your enemies. It is inconceivable to them that a soldier 
should be allowed to express his own thoughts, his ideas and his opinions. 
It is inconceivable to them that any soldiers — or any citizens, for 
that matter — should have any thoughts other than tnose dictated by 
their leaders. 

But here is the evidence that you have your own ideas, and 
the intelligence and the humor and the freedom to express them. Every 
one of you has an individual mission in this war — this greatest and 
most decisive of all wars. You are not only fighting for your country 
and your people — you are, in the larger sense, delegates of freedom. 

Upon you, and upon your comrades in arms of all the United 
Nations, depend the lives and liberties of all the human race. You 
bear with you the hopes of all the millions who have suffered under 
the oppression of the war lords of Germany and Japan. You bear with 
you the highest aspirations of mankind for a life of peace and decency 
under Jod. 

All of you well know your own personal stakes in this wart 
your homes, your families, your free schools, your free churches, the 
thousand and one simple, homely little virtues which Americans fought 
to establish, rnd which Americans have fought to protect, and which 
Americans today are fighting to extend and perpetuate tiiroughout this 
earth. 

I hope that for you men of our armed forces this paper will 
be a link <lth your families rnd your friends. As your Commander in Chief, 
I look forward myself to reading YANK — every issue of it — from cover 
to cover. 




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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



More Money Now En Route 




Even in fl South Seos islond it % the some old story pay day means fresh 
paper hard cosh and an old G I blanket Must be too hot down there for 
this buck to stand at attention 



PROSPERITY 
AT LAST 

WASHINGTON ! 

men of the Army an- prat Mcally <>n 
higher pay n^ht now It I |SQ I 

month he privets Infltne ri <>f |31 

and substantial m> rea es for i*j adei 
and liIiml's, unless Ihc President 
exercises his power of veto The 
new pay, effective June 1, may 
reach vou men at the June 30 pay 
eall 

There are a few snarls to be 
ironed out set b\ .. < n^ressional 
committee but the big problems 
111 solved, including the date the 
pay hike is effective 

Apprentice Navy seamen will n 

reive the same $50 monthlv h.i 
pay as Army's buck privates. 
The Figures 

Mile is vkh.it a soldier, s.itlm 
marine or coast guardsman will 
draw this month as compaied \s ith 
previous earnings: 

Present Ness 
Pas Pas 



Master sergeant, chief 

petty officer . $126 $138 

First or technical ser- 

K* ant petty officer 

fVrst class 84 1M 

Staff sergeant, petty 

officer 2nd class 72 9fi 

Serjeant, petty QiBl I I 

3rd class 60 78 

Corporal, seaman 1st 

class . 54 M 

Private 1st class, sea- 
man 2nd class . 36 54 
Private, apprentice 

seaman 30 50 

Private, less than four 

months' service 21 M 



With his $50 a month the Am* r- 
ican buck private will rank second 
only to the Australian as the high- 
est paid G I ir> the world The Aus- 
tralian private draws $62 50. the 
Canadian. $30 00; German. $21 BO 
Mexican, $12 40; British. $1220 

Argentine $4 76; Russian. $4 00 
Brazilian. $2 80 Italian. $1 51; 
Turkish, 40 cents; Japanese, 30 
cents; Chinese, 20 cents 

The new bill raises the pay of 
At my shavetails and Navy ensigns 
from $1,500 to $1,800 and nurses 

nan $70-130 to $90-150 it in- 

creases the rental and subsistence 
allowances of officers in the higher 
1 1 idN 

Under the new bill rental allow- 
ances for officers without depend- 
ent! range from $45 monthly for 
second lieutenants and ensigns to 
$105 for colonels and naval c ap 

tains Correspondingly, the range 

for these same officers with de- 
pendi nts is $60 to $120 

Subsistence allowance ranges 
from 70 cents to $2 10 per day. 

Under existing minimum pay 
scales in the Army, second lieuten- 
ants either with or without de- 
pendents receive $40 per month 
rental allowance and $18 per month 
subsistence Colonels without de- 
pendents receive a minimum of 
$80 rental. $120 with dependents 
Subsistence allowances are $18 
minimum for colonels without de- 
pendents, $ r >4 with dependents. 

Delayed Three Months 

A difference of opinion between 
House and Senate on how liberally 
to pay the fighting forces delayed 



hnal action on the bill for more 
than three months It was first in- 
troduced March 4 in the Senate 
by Senator Johnson. Democrat, of 
Colorado, and called for a 100 per 
cent increase fan privates' pay to 
$42 a month In the House, how- 
ever. Hep Hankin of Mississippi 
offered an amendment to $50. 

> ch th< . ' ruile l e fused to a( cept 

in a joint conference committee. A 
* • • 1 1 1 1 i nun . t of |4f .* month e »» v 

u hed .iftei a long fight bv Rep 
Rankin to hold the pay at $50 

.When the compromise was re- 
turned to the Senate fur final ap- 
. a I last week. Senator Robert 
M LaKollette of Wisconsin pro- 
posed that the Senate meet the 
! I e at $50 a month and this was 
approved June 9 

Meanwhile the House bl ought 
almost to hnal appioval a bill 
vs hu h helps dependents of enlisted 
men Now pa* set! h\ both Hun • 
and Senate and auaitin^ onlv ad- 
justment of minor dill rences, the 
measure gives a soldier's depend- 
ent wife $50 a month, of which 
$22 is mandatorily deducted from 
the soldier's pay. The government 
kick-, in the other $28 Kaeh tie 

pendent child would receive $12 a 

month additional. 

The same hill make , war i isk 
m inance compulsory for U S 

fighting Knee a $10,000 policy 

would cost vou $.1 50 a month from 
\oui pay. with Uncle Sam adding 
$.i from his own pocket to make 
up the $6 50 monthly premium. 



A SCREWBALL 7 

The 1942 Inventors 4 Exposition 
includes a round tank invented by 

I i 1 Aghnidee whet thinks it s an 

answer to a tankman's prayer Built 
like a bowling ball with treads, it 
1 itfhts itself immediately after turn- 
ing o\ci The occupants will spin 
around a little but. what the hell, 
tankmen are tough already, aien t 

they? 




It happened one night at a port 
<> e where west of Suez 



Mulish sailor tipsy. Goes in sa- 
loon< Meets three U. S sailors. 
Limey slants U. S. Navy Yanki < | 
buy him a drink Limey slams U. S. 
Navy again Yankees buy him an- 
other drink. Limey slams U B 
Navy thud time Yankees buy him 
third dunk . buy him tenth 
dl mk 

Limey passes out. Yankees sym- 
pathetic Take him back to ship 
Stop en route at tattoo shop Limey 
still out. 

Limey comes to. U. S battleship 
on chest Also r<*d white, and blue 
Inecription, "Clod Bless America." 



CABLE HOME 
AT 60* PER 

Sixty-cent cables and microfilm 
ail are now available to American 
expeditionai \ f 01 < es 

A list of 103 fixed -test phrases, 
covering practically every situation 
m the life of a GX« have been writ- 
ten The sender may incoporate up 
U thiee of theee texts in a cable 01 
ladtogram. Cost of the entire mes- 
will be 60 cents plus Federal 
tu Including address and tenft- 

lure The ordinary cable rate is 20 
10 senti 1 ord 

Soldiers send the new Expedi 
tn.nary Force Messages to the U.S. 
from Britain. Alaska, Newfound- 
land. Puerto Rico, Panama, Hawaii 
and the Caribbean Plans may ex- 
U ii-i the service to Austr cilia New 
Caledonia, Egypt, India, China and 
I< eland 

Relatives and friends may send 
outbound I t M cables and radio- 
prems to you under the same con- 
ditions Service overseas will be 
handled through central stations, 
vs 1 1 hi local deliveries and collections 
made by the Army Postal Service, 
rtu i<»< at ion of foreign posts to and 
From winch messages are sent will 

not he 11 ni icated 
Very fipressive 

The guy who prepared the 103 

available text: didn't miss any 
1 1 ii ks. If you get cleaned in a black- 
jack game, you need only go jaw- 
bone for sixty cents to wife home 
fol se conds If you need it quick for 
.1 Sat ni day flight date with a hi or ale 
in Melbourne, you may group your 
; f ases this way: "Urgent. Please 
send me ten dollars. Best wishes 
for a speedy return " 

Or if you suspect that "Somebody 
Kl e \s I\ik mg My IMa< e. you can 
make a comeback with "No news 
of you for some time. Are you all 
light Love! and kisses.'* 
Light for Postmen 

A new mail service, known as 
V-Mail, is now in operation be- 
tween Army units in England and 
Northern Ireland and the United 
State- Mail is dispatched to a cen- 
tial station, (ensured and photo- 
graphed on small rolls of microfilm 
The British have used this system 
for some time. 

The microfilm rolls are dis- 
patched to America, where they 
aie developed and photostatic cop- 
ies made on special forms, which 
are Sent through regular mail to 
the addressees 

V-Mail so far is handled only on 
a one-way basis between England. 

Northern Ireland and the United 

States, but it may soon be extended 
to II S armed forces m other parts 
of the world. 

I CCC Foot in Grave, 
Other Soon Follows 

WASHINGTON— The Civilian 
Conservation Corps, known to two 
and a half million old grads as the 
C's. may soon come to an end. 

An appropriation of $75,000,000 
to operate 350 CCC camps, most of 
them on military reservations, has 
been turned down by the House of 
Representatives. 

Unless the Senate restores these 
funds to the appropriation bill, the 
CCC is doomed next month. 



A Flaming \ij»liOii;ir<» 

Time wo* running out on Corregidor. Everyone knew the siege wo* nearly 
over They hod started to kill the horses, the meat was tough, but it was better 
than nothing A man could fight on its nourishment, and fight well. 

Out of the fortress' voults the finance officers brought $1 00,000,000 in cur- 
rency useless papr»r It couldn't be taken off the island, and it couldn't be left for 
the Japs The only thing to do wos to burn it 

Ten thousand dollar bills burn well. Around the fire stood silent soldiers, 
watching a fortune go up in smoke A dirty-faced private stepped forward, picked 
up a $100 bill, turned it over and over in his hands. He put a cigarette in his 
mouth, bent and let the $100 touch the flames, then lit his cigarette from the 
blazing currency. "Always wanted to do that," he said. 

Other soldiers followed him silently, doing the some thing. For once, money 
didn't matter much Time was running out on Corregidor. 



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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



YES, Y'GOTTA 
FILE A RETURN 

WASHINGTON— Like it or not, 
there's always the income tax. 

The Treasury Department, quer- 
ied this week by your YANK cor- 
respondent, gave out with answers 
to some pertinent questions about 
filing of returns by soldiers. 

Each case which might cause se- 
rious worry to the taxpayer has a 
slightly different angle, but on the 
whole the idea is: 

1. A soldier in the continental 
United States, meaning the 48 and 
DC, has to file a return. That's 
final. 

2. If outside continental U.S., fil- 
ing is deferred until the fifteenth 
day of the third month of his re- 
turn. 

3. Any person in the military 
service may obtain deferment of 
income tax, due either now or in 
the future, until six months after 
the termination of his military 
service — if he has a valid cause. Nq 
interest can be charged on the 
amount due. 

There's the Rub 

Therein lies the clincher. The 
44 valid cause" has to be proven. 
You've got to sell it to the Collector 
of Internal Revenue in your home 
state. The Treasury Department 
says to write the C. of I.R. back 
home, explaining the reason why 
deferment of payment is asked. It's 
up to him to rule on your case. If 
your reason is valid he'll grant de- 
ferment and you don't have to wor- 
ry until six months after you are 
mustered out. 

The law (Soldiers' and Sailors' 
Relief Act of 1940) reads very sim- 
ply: 

4l Sec. 513. The collection from 
any person in the military service 
of any tax on the income of such 
person, whether falling due prior 
to or during his period of military 
service, shall be deferred for a pe- 
riod extending not more than six 
months after the termination of his 
period of military service if such 
person's ability to pay such tax is 
materially impaired by reason of 
such service. No interest on any 
amount of tax, collection of which 
is deferred for any period under 
this section, and no penalty for 
nonpayment of such amount during 
such period, shall accrue for such 
period of deferment by reason of 
such nonpayment." 
Joe and His Dough 

Joe Louis (now Cpl. Barrow) 
may be one guy who'll bless this 
little paragraph. Joe owes the gov- 
ernment $117,000 in taxes on his 
ring earnings, and there's talk that 
he may not be allowed to fight for 
his own benefit anymore. 

Now if he hasn't got $1 17,000 and 
isn't allowed to pick up some more 
coin, he's still out of danger. It 
seems safe to say that his 4t ability 
to pay such tax is materially im- 
paired by reason of such service." 

Less publicized but more impor- 
tant is the guy who earned a mod- 
erate salary in private life. He 
knew his folks weren't starving, 
but he knew too that a five or a ten 
slipped into a letter home would do 
a lot of good. 

He couldn't legally claim anyone 
as a dependent, so he paid income 
tax on his full salary, minus legal 
deductions. Then he went into the 
Army still owing Uncle Sam part 
of the tax. 

To him, this deferment means a 
breathing spell until he gets back 
in the civilian groove. 



Seeing Double 

The parlor t4 peep show" of the 
Gay Nineties has been resurrected 
to get vital information about en- 
emy military objectives. 

A contour-finder, similar in prin- 
ciple to the old-fashioned stereo- 
scope which was the forerunner of 
modern motion pictures, now is 
used by U. S. military intelligence 
officers to locate enemy information 
from aerial photographs taken on 
reconnaissance flights. 

Stereoscopic lenses of the con- 
tour-finder are focused until two 
tiny red dots engraved in each 
lens merge into a single floating 
dot. Apparently flat photographs 
are then shown in three-dimen- 
sional or model relief which pro- 
duces an image of the terrain. By 
maneuvering the floating dot over 
objects such as hills, buildings and 
gun emplacements, measurements 
of their height and other dimen- 
sions can be obtained with the aid 
of a computing table. 

Small enough to be carried in a 
soldier's kit, the contour-finder is 
expected to aid field operations by 
recording in aerial photographs 
data that would take G-2 officers 
many weeks to explore. 



We got a letter the other day 
from a smart little blonde in Canar- 
sie who does occasional espionage 
work for us on the side, usually 
along the Gowanus Canal. She's 
pretty upset, and with good reason. 
Seems that all of the new popular 
music about the war is being slant- 
ed for civilians, especially for The 
Girl He Left Behind. The soldier 
doesn't fit into the deal, which is 
O.K. with us, but our Canarsie 
friend is beginning to wilt under 
the strain. 

This doll (her name is Irma), 
who had a perfectly good male 
chum until his outfit went to Ire- 
land, has always been a radio fan. 
During a recent blackout, as a mat- 
ter of fact, she carried a portable 
radio into the bathroom and sat 
there, knitting in the dark, happy 
as a clam, while some Jersey station 
cooled her coccyx with a Back- 
From-The-Grave mellerdrammer. 
Now, however, she's really boined, 
as they say in Canarsie. 

4 Tm going to turn that damned 
radio off* for the duration," she 
wrote. "All it plays is 4 Don't Sit 
Under The Apple Tree With Any- 
one Else But Me.' I can't take it no 
longer. Every time it comes over 
the ether I see myself sitting with 
my head against the antimacassar, 
being true to a bum who's probably 
out drinking beer right now with 
some Killarney schlemiel. 4 Begob,' 
she'll be saying, 'do yez love any- 
body but me, Joe?' 'Begob, I do not, 1 



he'll be saying right back at her, 
and him slipping into the soft talk 
as though he'd never touched 
borscht in his life. The hell with 
the apple tree. Male men are so 
scarce around here there's nobody 
to sit under one with, anyway. And 
in the first place, there's only three 
apple trees in Canarsie, and they're 
just little small ones. It's time I 
tooken to drink." 

Touched, and not a little upset, 
we checked up on the popular song 
business by the simple method of 
walking up to a naked jukebox 
with three nickels in our hand. The 
first nickel went into a number 
called 44 Three Little Sisters." These 
three tomatoes loved (a) a soldier, 
(b) a sailor, and (c) a Marine. 
Their boy friends went away, so 
they all sat around the gas works 
and read True Story. The second 
number was called 4t I Threw A Kiss 
In The Ocean," and it was about 
some poor nut on a convoy who 
looked down and saw his girl's face 
smiling at him from the waves. "I 
threw a kiss in the ocean," this ape 
said, "and it threw it right back to 
me." Salty kisses never appealed to 
us, so we went to the men's room 
when the number was about half 
played. When we came back we laid 
our last nickel on the nose of a tune 
called "The Jersey Bounce." It was 
a nice number, simple and loud. 
We're beginning to understand how 
things are in Canarsie. 



Goddard, Chaplin 
Call It Quits 

EL PASO, Tex. — The team of 
Charles Chaplin and Paulette God- 
dard, which for some years ap- 
peared in a successful skit entitled 
"Are We Married?" has reached 
the end of the circuit. 

A civil court at Juarez, Mexico, 
granted Paulette a full-fledged 
divorce. The charges were incom- 
patibility and separation of more 
than a year. 

Chaplin and Paulette met in 1933 
when she was a chorus cutie in 
Eddie Cantor's 44 Kid From Spain." 
The truth or falseness of their se- 
cret marriage kept the hearts of 
fainting fans palpitating for five 
years. Chaplin first called Paulette 
"my wife" at the premiere of "The 
Great Dictator" in 1940. • 

Did that cause confusion? It most 
certainly did cause confusion. 
Chaplin wouldn't give details. 
Movie reporters went crazy trying 
to find the details. But nobody 
found the details — not till last 
week. 

During the divorce suit it became 
known that the two were married 
in 1936 in Canton, China. Of all 
places. 

I WE'LL PPINT YOUR 
I SQUAWK - 



<3=S (XT- 




Have you a pet gripe, and are you in 
a spot where nobody will listen? Blow 
off steam on us, and we ll print your 
letter if the squawk is a legitimate one. 
Send U to YANK, 205 East 42nd St., 
New York City. 



Army May Drop Credit, 
Including PX and Barber 

WASHINGTON— The Army has decided to find out whether 
charge accounts can be abolished for enlisted men. 

Under a plan which will receive a test in the field soon, no more 
credit will be issued at Army Exchanges, barber shops, shoeshops 
and pool rooms. Object is two-fold: relieve the Army of a lot of 
paper work, and tlach the soldier to budget his pay. 

At present an enlisted man can get credit at Army Exchanges 
up to one-third of his pay, such debt being entered on the company 
collection sheet. Credit available for other facilities can be extended 
for another third of the soldier's pay. 




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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 




R. G. HERBERT 
Sergeant, Commandos 



HARRY HOWARD 
Artificer, Royal Navy 



M. A. D. RIDDELL 
F/Sgt., R.A.F. 



D. N. HUNTLEY 
F/Sgt., R.A.F. 



Four Who i a me Hack 



Non-Coms Tell How They Won Those Medals; 
Two Were With Commandos at St. Nazaire 



The ballroom of the big hotel was 
crowded. Reporters and camera- 
men crowded around. Fifteen he- 
roes, men of war who had earned 
a respite from battle and who were 
getting a lung's welcome. 

Ten of the heroes were British, 
live were American. The Americans 
were Ensign Donald F. Mason, who 
"Sighted sub, sank same"; Lt 
Comdr, Harold Smith, who was 
master of the destroyer Stewart in 
the Bandoeing Strait, off Java; Lt. 

Eliot Vandevanter Jr., who raided 

the Japs on Luzon; Lt. William 
Carrithers, cited for special skill as 
a bomber navigator during attacks 
On Jap installations and troops; and 
2d Lt George Welch, who shot 
down four Jap planes at Pearl 
Harbor. 

In a corner of the ballroom stood 
lour British non-commissioned 
Officers. Two were flight sergeants 
in the R.A.F., one was a petty officer 
in His Majesty's fleet, and one was a 
sergeant of Commandos. They were 
tired. There had been a parade that 
morning, and many ceremonies. 
They had just finished an elaborate 
luncheon and now they wanted to 
go somewhere and lie down, lt was 
hard being a hero. 

Flight Sergeant D. N. Huntley 
thought it was hard. Huntley is 
young and blond, from Salisbury, 
South Africa. Once he worked for 
an oil company, now he is the front 
gunner on a bomber. On his left 
breast he wears the ribbon of the 
Distinguished Conduct Medal. He 
got it for a little trip to Augsburg 
on a sunny morning. "It wasn't so 
much/ 1 he said. "I do that sort of 
thing quite often. Just happened 
that they liked the way I did it this 
time, I guess." 

Huntley strafed a strip of Ger- 
many all the way from England to 
Augsburg. He had a wonderful 
time. "I get the most men when we 
fly low," he said, "and this time we 
dew 50 feet off the ground all the 
way 1 really don't know how many 
1 killed, lt must have been plenty 

Especially officers. I bate those 
Jerry officers." 

Flight Sergeant Maxwell Alex- 
ander Dick Riddell gets 20 shil- 
lings a day, and is pretty pleased 
about it. He's from Hamilton, Lan- 
arkshire, Scotland. Riddell has been 
on 81 separate operations, and has 
been wounded twice. A German 
pilot put two bullets in his arm over 
the Channel one day. "l didn't know 
it for about five minutes," he said. 



Riddell, a radio operator, has been 
in almost every important bomb- 
ing. He was over Rostock and over 
Lubeck, and the Channel ports 
seem like home to him. 

"A radio operator has a rum 
time of it," he said. "There he is, 
not knowing what's really going on. 
never sure but a bullet s going to nip 
him off through the fuselage. He 
has to sit tight and take it. Cots on 
a bloke's nerves sometimes." 

A Commando has to be tough, 
and Sgt. R. d. Herbert is a tough 
baby He looked very tough and 
out of place in the plush surround- 
ings of the hotel, lie s a thirsty guy, 



too, and while the reporters milled 
around him he lulled himself with 
a scotch and soda. Herbert is an old 
British Army man. 

"I joined up in 1931," he said, 
"and stayed in till 1938. Then I got 
out ami worked on the docks for 
awhile. A man likes a change now 
and again." 

When the war began, Herbert got 
back into khaki. In January, 1941, 
he Went to France, and he was with 
the Royal North Hampshires when 
they blew the Albert Canal to blazes 
in the fatal May of that year. "1 
was at Dunkirk, too," he said, "had 
two boats shot out from under me. 




When they started the Commandos 
I was one of the first to volunteer. 
A man likes a bit of action now and 
again." 

Herbert has been on all the im- 
portant Commando raids, but it was 
during a raid on Vaagso that he 
picked up the Distinguished Con- 
duct Medal he wears. He got it for 
taking 17 prisoners single-handed. 
The way he tells it, though, it 
sounds easy. 

"What happened," he said, "was 
that I chased this one Jerry into an 
air raid shelter, and when 1 went 
down after him I found he wasn't 
alone. There were 17 of them down 
there, and one officer with them. I 
started to say me prayers, mean- 
while aiming me tommy gun where 
it would do the most good. Then the 
Jerries surrendered." He smiled, 
a trifle grimly. 'You know, there 
are only 10 men left of the original 
t>f> in my troop." 

Sergeant Herbert looked pen- 
sively at his glass. "A man likes a 
bit of scotch now and again," he 
said. 

John Bull might be personified 
in the square, smiling face of Chief 
Engine Room Artificer Harry How- 
ard. He's not so young any more, 
but he's still game for a "good go," 
as he calls it. He was in on a good go 
last Spring at St. Nazaire, and he 
has the Distinguished Service 
Medal to show for it. Howard was 
on the destroyer that rammed the 
locks at St. Nazaire. 

"It was on one of those jolly old 
tubs you gave us," he said. "The 
Buchanan Saintly old ship, she was. 
We sent her down right where we 
wanted her, and she went down 
just right — quick and easy." 

There were 84 men on the Bu- 
chanan when she left England, but 
only 24 returned from St. Nazaire. 
There were no officers among them. 

"When we hit the shore," How- 
ard said, "I was the only petty 
officer left, so I was in command. 
Those of us who could still walk 
fought our way along the shore 
until we struck one of our motor 
boats and hopped aboard. We had 
to tight our way with pistols and 
tommy guns, and the Jerries were 
thick as (lies. There weren't so 
many of them left when we'd gone, 
though." 

Before the St. Nazaire raid How- 
ard was on a ship ferrying supplies 
to Tobruk in Libya when the Aus- 
tralians were under siege there. 
"That was a good go, too," he said. 

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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



.Wws From Home 



Around an 
about Am 



Remember Pearl Harbor 

Where once stood the New York's 
World Fair, residents of Flushing 
Meadows Park and members of the 
Flushing Ridge Civic Association 
requested removal of the old Japa- 
nese Pavilion. Take it away or we'll 
tear it down piece by piece, they 
said. Park Commissioner Moses 
complied. 





Yeah, Just Wait! 

Antoinette Heim, who looked 
like a genteel little black-clad gov- 
erness and said she was a cousin of 
Franz von Papen, almost ripped the 
roof off New York's General Ses- 
sions Court, where she. was . con- 
victed of swindling German domes- 
tics of their life savings. Reviling 
officials and denouncing Jews, 
Fraulein Heim screamed, "Wait till 
Hitler comes over here! He'll take 
care of you!" Judge Owen W. 
Bowan replied that for the next 
three years the penitentiary would 
take care of her. 




So Did Goliath 

At Camp Shelby, Miss., a Maine 
infantry major was giving his men 
effective instruction in learning to 
duck from enemy observers. Dur- 
ing such drills he toured the field in 
a jeep and popped away at exposed 
heads with a sling-shot. 



Black of the 



[ice Hugo Lafayette 
S. Supreme Court 
drove the wfong direction on a 
ope-way thorqughfare. Fine: five 
dollars. 

Patriotism was working on the 
night shift in Philadelphia this 
week. Miss Eileen Whitney, 24, was 
discharged from a hospital after 
being treated for submersion and 
alcoholism. Overcome by patriotic 
fervor, she had jumped into the 
Delaware River sinking REMEM- 
BER PEARL HARBOR. 




Latrine Duty 

In Los Angeles, a farmer named 
Sam Phillips appealed to the War 
Production Board for permission to 
buy a bathroom set. After working 
in a dirty chicken yard all day in 
the desert heat he felt entitled to 
a bath. Besides, he said, he wanted 
to get married and the lady had 
said he must have a bathroom. 

Seven honor students at Pratt 
Institute in Brooklyn were given 
photographs of the bronze medals 
they would have received if there 
hadn't been a metal shortage. They 
were told that they will get the real 
awards eventually. 

Not All in a Name 

In Detroit, Adolph Hitler of Mos- 
cow, Mich., who first broke into 
print last February when he regis- 
tered for the draft, made the head- 
lines again. He was arrested by 
state police, who charged they 
found him spying on the Army 
Ferry Command at Wayne County 
Airport. 



Learn to Fight Dirty 



CHAMPAIGN, III.— Students at 
the University of Illinois may take 
a course called PEM 58 which is de- 
signed to teach prospective soldiers 
"how to fight dirty." 

Use of the clenched fist is frowned 
on by the course's two mild- 
mannered instructors. "Hitting a 
clenched fist against a bony struc- 
ture is a good way to break your 
knuckles," they teach. "Strike with 
the sharp, flat hand against the side 
of the neck or face. You can stun a 
man by hitting that way. 

"Then, say you're sneaking up on 
a sentry. You jump on his back, 
reach both arms around his neck 
and shove a foot against the back of 
his knee. The impact is guaranteed 
to double him up like a jackknife 
and if you twist at the same time 
you'll sever his spinal cord." 

The neatest and best trick of all, 
according to PEM 58, is to "go for 
his eyes if you get a chance. Gouge 
a man in the eye, that's the way." 

The ten essentials of defense in 
dirty fighting are: 

1. Get in the best possible physi- 



cal condition and stay in condition. 

2. In civil life, never initiate an 
attack regardless of provocation. 

3. When facing an opponent in- 
tent on injuring you, allow him to 
show his hand first. 

4. The counter-attack has greater 
possibility of success. Let him swing 
and then duck and strike under his 
guard. 

5. When conditions are such that 
it is the only way out, take your op- 
ponent by surprise. 

6. Fighting should be indulged in 
only for protection of self, family or 
nation. 

7. The man who observes the 
rules of a gentleman when defend- 
ing himself against an attack is 
using poor judgment. 

8. If required to make a frontal 
attack, approach in such a way as 
to make your opponent lash out 
first — but it's better to get behind a 
foe if you can. 

9. Remember your weak spots 
and your opponent's are the groin, 
solar plexis, neck, throat and chin. 

10. If you can, gouge his eyes. 



RALEIGH, N.C.— Josephus Dan- 
iels, Secretary of the Navy in World 
War I, wants all West Point cadets 
and Annapolis midshipmen in fu- 
ture to be chosen from the ranks, 
instead of being nominated by Con- 
gressmen, the President and by 
competitions. 

LOS ANGELES — George D. 
Hauptmann, lumber company ex- 
ecutive, ground his teeth in rage 
after an automobile collision and 
sued for $16,250 damages: loss of 
one tooth. 

LOGANSPORT, Ind.— The com- 
bined civic clubs called off a big 
rally in honor of two Canadian Air 
Force heroes who told of shooting 
down 126 planes. They were in the 
county jail as impostors. 

BROOKLYN — Andrew Derby, 
attorney for the Brooklyn Dodgers, 
promised to soften the sound of the 
organ which plays during games 
at Ebbets Field. A neighbor three 
blocks away complained about the 
noise. 

NEW YORK — Brenda Diana 
DufT Frazier, former glamour girl 
and wife of John S. (Shipwreck) 
Kelly, attained to woman's estate. 
The estate: $1,400,00 in cash and a 
life interest in $2,500,000. 

NASHVILLE, Tenn.— Don Cal- 
fee, 32, business manager of the 
Johnson City Press and Chronicle, 
who has traveled all over the U. S. 
and Canada, took his first train 
ride. Destination a state press con- 
vention in Nashville. Cost: price of 
the ticket and forfeiture of a $25 
bet that he wouldn't ride a train 
before he was 35. Tire rationing 
and priorities on air travel left the 
train the only available conveyance. 

CANTON, N. Y.— Malcolm Mac- 
Donald, United Kingdom High 
Commissioner to Canada, had au- 
tomobile trouble on his way to 
Canton, where he was to receive 
an honorary degree at Lawrence 
University. The High Commission- 
er hitch-hiked the 15 miles from 
Ogdensburg. 

WAYNE, Neb. — Mr. and Mrs. 
Fred Lutt returned to their farm 
to find their house burned. They 
had gone to town to buy matches. 

COLUMBUS, Ohio— Gov Brick- 
er has appointed a commission to 
collect and preserve for future his- 
torians the records of Ohio's part 
in the present war. 

NEW YORK— Myrna Loy went 
to the altar with John Hertz, Jr., 
advertising. Her second trip; first 
was with film producer Arthur 
Hornblow. 

WASHINGTON —War Depart- 
ment announced perfection of a 
field unit to supply 4,000 men with 
daily bread ration. Sets up in an 
hour and a half. 

DETROIT— Dick Reading, son of 
former Detroit mayor, was con- 
victed of participation in a $30,- 
000,000-a-year gambling racket. 

BELCHERSTOWN, Mass.— Con- 
stance Carpenter of Springfield, a 
16-year-old who had been missing 
for five days, was found alive in a 
swamp. 

TRENTON, N. J. — Supreme 
Court ruled to allow Norman Licht- 
man the right to keep pigs on his 
farm. There are 85,000 pigs in the 
vicinity, records show. 

PHILADELPHIA, Pa.— A strike 
of musicians failed to stall the 
Ringling Circus. The management 
carried on with a caliope. 



TRENTON, N. J.— Two thousand 
strawberry pickers are needed for 
the New Jersey strawberry harvest. 

LEWISTON, Me.— Erskine Cald- 
well, Jr., son of the author of "To- 
bacco Road," was inducted into the 
Marine Corps. 

ST. LOUIS, Mo.— A new plastic 
has been developed for tooth-filling 
which looks just as good as por- 
celain and feels like a real tooth. 

INDIANAPOLIS— State officials 
were informed that naval officers 
assigned to the new battleship In- 
diana would appreciate a juke box 
instead of the silver table service 
usually given by the state for which 
a ship is named. 

WEST DENNIS, Mass.— The air- 
plane spotter who first sights an 
enemy plane over the Cape Cod 
area will receive $50 from Albert 
GifTord, a local resident. 

NEW YORK — On eight hours' 
notice, the 321 square miles of New 
York City were completely blacked 
out in the first city-wide drill of 
the war. The result, said Mayor 
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, was "really 
beyond expectation/ 1 

ROCHESTER, N. Y.— Some 300 
business and professional men are 
working midnight shifts in war 
plants here after their regular day's 
work. The idea sprang spontane- 
ously from men who wanted to do 
'more than I'm already doing to 
help win this war." Their night 
' wages" are turned over to war re- 
lief funds. 

NEW YORK— Mme. Liliana Ter- 

uzzi, estranged Jewish wife of Gen- 
eral Attilio Teruzzi, who organized 
Mussolini's Black Shirt Militia, has 
found a practical patriotic use for 
her seven languages. She works as 
a volunteer censor in the U. S. Post 
Office. 

LEWISBURG, Pa. — M L An- 

nenberg, Philadelphia publisher, 
was released on parole from the 
penitentiary because of illness. He 
had served 23 months of a three- 
year sentence in the largest indi- 
vidual income-tax case on record. 

WASHINGTON— A new three- 
cent postage stamp, with the in- 
scription "Win the War," will be 
issued July 4. Central motive: An 
American eagle with wings out- 
stretched to form a large V. 

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn — 

George W. Christians, leader of the 
Crusader White Shirts, was found 
guilty of sedition and faced a pos- 
sible total of 80 years in prison and 
$40,000 fine. He was found guilty on 
two counts of attempting to foment 
rebellion and mutiny in the armed 
forces and two counts of attempting 
to discourage enlistments in the 
armed services. 

LAGRANGE, Ga.— Lloyd Brad- 
feld, formerly of LaGrange and 
now in the Army, volunteered and 
reported to Ft. McPherson 25 years 
to the day that he reported for duty 
in the First World War at the same 
camp. 

BATON ROUGE, La. — A bill 
passed unanimously by the Louisi- 
ana Senate would make it a crime 
to kill, wound or hold in possession 
living or dead racing pigeons which 
are used in wartime to carry mes- 
sages. 

CHICAGO — General forecasts of 
the wheat crop of 1942 indicate 
high yields to the acre for both 
Spring and Winter variety. 



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IN 



"Oh, some slip-up somewhere. I imagine we'll be back on 
regular rations in a day or two." 




Hi VuDuy 



"They're from the Morale Office. They say nobody ever 
plans anything to cheer fhem up!" 




Tm his lawyer. 



U I Jlp'f rvt sldro Fabry 
poral of the guard! Post number Seven!' 




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THE BITTER BAYONET OF COLONEL BIDDLE 




Cold Steel! 

Sixteen inches of steel at the end 
of a rifle can be a lease on life when 
"Assault Fire" comes and men fight 
hand-to-hand, no holds barred. 

The bayonet is the last souvenir 
of days when men slugged it out 
with sword and battle-axe. Artil- 
lery and automatic weapons kill at 
a distance, chemicals sometimes in- 
flict casualties days after first re- 
leased. 

There is nothing delicate or de- 
ceiving about a bayonet. Grooved 
for blood letting and cast for bitter 
service, it is a fearful weapon in the 
hands of a trained tighter. 

It is the weapon of the individual 
soldier. It is vicious. And it is still 
important in warfare of tanks and 
mechanized equipment. Today we 
light not in masses but in combat 
trams in which every man is a unit 
within himself. 

The supposedly-expert Jap felt 
American steel burn on Bataan. 
Those same Japs have been accused 
by Chiang Kai-Shek's guerillas of 
refusing the challenge of man-to- 
man fight. But if the Jap's courage 
to face steel is questioned, his train- 
ing in the weapon is not. He is 
drilled incessantly in its use. 

British Commandos have devel- 
oped the bayonet and a dozen vari- 
ations of it. Their use of steel is as 
great as the German's aversion to it. 

The long, thin blade of the Rus- 
sian soldier has helped withstand 
Hitler on the Eastern Front. 

The bayonet cannot and does not 
pretend to be more effective than 
fire power. But as long as there are 
armies there will be bayonets, be- 
cause where there are armies men 
will come together in personal com- 
bat. 

In that kind of fight steel wins. 

From time immemorial, it has 
been the same. Caesar had his bat- 
tle pikes, and what were they but 
bayonets when you come to think 
of it. In the Middle Ages, they had 
their swords, and swords slash like 
bayonets. 

You know the part the bayonet 
played in the World War. The part 
it played in China. 



By Pvt. Lloyd Shearer 

A pot-bellied fellow with eagles 
on his shoulders and store teeth lip- 
Stairs pointed his bayonetted 
Sprjjyfffreld toward a hard-boiled 
ry regiment at Ft. Bragg. 
"All light, now," lie shouted, 
"kill me." 

Nobody moved. 

The chicken-claws pointed to the 

ranks. 

"You. come and get me." But the 
kid he singled out was scared. 

"Dammit, I want you to cut my 
throat." 

The Private made a half-hearted 

bayonet thrust. 
Don't Be Yellow 

"You're yellow," the Colonel 
yelled, prancing up and down in 
his black sneakers. "I want a man 
who's not afraid to kill. Step out, 
you there," he commanded a tough- 
looking 30-year-old sergeant. The 
buck stepped from the ranks. 





"Now come running at me with 
your bayonet," he ordered, "and go 
for my throat." 

The sergeant wet his lips. He 
Clenched his gun and lunged full 
speed at the Colonel's neck. 

Col. Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, 
who knows more about bayonets, 
knives and jiujitsu than any other 
man, parried the thrust with his 
own bayonet. Before the sergeant 
could mumble, "Holy smoke," Bid- 
die had his own bayonet alongside 
the sergeant's throat, and the big 
buck was sweating. 

"That's how it s done," the Colo- 
nel said. "Now let's all t ry it." 

A Leatherneck 

Ever since World War I in which 
he saw actual service on a half 
dozen fronts, Marine Corps Colonel 
Biddle, now 67, has been risking 
his Adam's Apple on behalf of re- 
cruit training. Loaned to the Army 
by the Marines, the former world's 
amateur heavyweight boxing 
champion has taught the funda- 
mentals of Ln-fighting to para- 
chutists at Lakehurst, raider bat- 
talions at Quantico, and thousands 
pf camp trainees along the Eastern 
seaboard. 

Of the scores of ambitious recruits 
who've tried to beat the old boy, 
either in jiujitsu, wrestling, boxing, 
or bayoneting, only one succeeded. 
A marine at Quantico supposedly 
got him in the groin with a knife. 
Thus far no one has been able to 
locate a witness to the event or find 
out the marine's name. Marine 
Headquarters says, "So far as we 
can determine, it never happened." 

Biddle Is McCoy 

The present crop of Army men 
he's trained swear by the Colonel. 
"Biddle is the real McCoy," they 
say. "In one hour this old guy 
teaches us more about bayonets 
and self-defense t han we've learned 
in a whole year. He really knows 
how to kill. Some of us who've been 
in the artillery shooting shells five 
miles away never realized that 
death could be dished out to us six 
inches away." 




And the colonel 
veiled: "Dammit, 1 
want you to cut my 
throat." The colonel 
wasn't kidding either, 
because it'll be a long 
day from now when 
anybody can grab off 
the colonel with a 
bayonet. Why? The 
answer is on this page. 



Private Joe Hill of Ft. Bragg, 
N. C, said: "I tried to get him my- 
self today. You know what the old 
geezer did? He knocked the damn 
gun outa my hand. 1 think this Bid- 
dle is nuts/' 

"Nuts?" another yardbird asked. 

"Yeah," Hill answered. "Look at 
him. He's a Philadelphia Biddle. 
He's got more money than you 
could shake a stick at. He's old 
enough to be our grandfather. And 
still he wantsa risk his neck. I tell 
you he's nuts. Only trouble with 
Army IS that we ain't got more 
nuts just like him." 
A Sentimental Cuss 

At the other end of the pole, 
Biddle, despite his outward leath- 
erneck hard-heartedness, is senti- 
mental about his charges. "All the 
men in this new Army," he says, 
"are a great bunch of fellows, line 
boys to teach." 




"Do you find many of them gun- 
shy," we asked, "or reluctant to use 
a bayonet?" _ 



Biddle refleeted for a moment, 
dosing his right eye. "Not many of 
them, They're not like Mussolini's 
soldiers. When I come across a man 
who looks as if he might hesitate to 
use the knife on the enemy, I tell 
him, 'Son, when you meet a Jap in 
battle, say to him real fast) "How is 
your dear old mother?" Then cut 
his throat.' 

Does that help any?" 

"Don't know exactly," replied 
the Colonel. "But it's good for their 
conscience . . . specially on Mother's 
Day." 



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Men and Machines 
Put Hell on High 



By Pvt. Leonard Rubin 

Over London the anti-aircraft 
barrage was, and still is, a curtain 
of flame in the sky. In Australia, 
Panama, Iceland, Hawaii, and on 
both American coasts the snouts of 
the ack-acks poke into the sky. 
Most of them are virgin barrels, but 
they're ready for instant action. 

Ack-acks may look simple, but 
they're touchy babies to shoot. 
Their crews need teamwork, cour- 
age, and strength. 

Trained spotters pick out enemy 
ships trying to pull a sneak. They 
pick up a phone and bark an identi- 
fication. "Enemy aircraft spotted. 
Height— 10.000— 12 ships— head- 
ing southeast. " Other reports come 
in. The information center figures 
where the planes are from, where 
they're going, how fast they're fly- 
ing. All this dope is relayed to anti- 
aircraft crews and fighter com- 
mands. If the raid is at night the 
searchlights get it, too. 

Experts race to the guns. The 
mechanical 4i brains" start "think- 
ing." The altitude crew sets its ma- 
chine scanning the sky. What this 
instrument "sees" is flashed by 
electricity to the director, which 
aims the gun. 




Eight hundred million candles 
probe the night. This baby can 
pick 'em out— and hold 'em. 

From finder data the director 
picks up the plane and trains the 
gun for correct range. As the flying 
target moves the finder keeps the 
gun moving along with it. 

All the brainwork is done for the 
gun crew. They ram 90 mm. shells 
into the breach and blaze away as 
soon as the plane is in range. Ack- 



ack fire is effective even at long dis- 
tances. Exploding shells rock by 
impact — or flying shrapnel stings 
them. 

Many shells scream out of the 
guns per minute — as long as the 
enemy is within range — and once 
the raider is out of "sight" the proc- 
ess starts again on any ships that 
may be following him. 

When the "Jerries" or the 
"Little Yellow Bellies" hit low — 
under 5,000 — rapid firing 50 s and 
37's get set. These smaller guns 
pester the low-fivers so they can't 
think enough about bombing or 
strafing to do their job. Arch ene- 
mies of these guns are the vaunted 
Stukas and Jap Zeros, both of 
which have licked wounds from 
American batteries. 
Spears of Light 

At night searchlight spears 
pierce the blackness. These 800,- 
000,000 candlepower needles have 
their own directors. With help from 
the gleamers the guns can spot the 
raiders with daytime ease. Fancy 
airobatics are easy for the search- 
lighters to follow. Sharp eyes and 
good coordiantion make our AA 
light beams feared by the enemy. 

Before they know, enemy planes 
are in the middle of a barrage. For- 
mations are dispersed, calculations 
for bombing thrown off. A burst 
several yards from a plane takes its 
toll. It may stun the pilot, or jar a 
delicate mechanism. 

The batteries maintain constant 
touch with the secret information 
center for hint of approaching 
ships. The "hot loop" is always open 
with information steadily coming 
through. The battery commander 
makes his HQ in a command post 
where he keeps in telephonic touch 
with each gun. In the battery room 
is a plotting chart which is used to 
keep continuous track of a target 
as it approaches. 

Seconds after the command post 
sounds the alert, men are at battle 
posts. They rip off gun covers — kick 
aside camouflage — raise barrels. 
Signals come through. The gun 
swivels into position. On target — 
Fire. 

It's an old Army custom, and a 
wise one, never to under-estimate 
an enemy. The battery commander 
knows that once his gun is on a 
target and shells are sent screaming 
up, the target itself will locate the 
gun and take any kind of action to 
evade a hit. 





"Hot loop" phone circuit is kept 
constantly open for alert from 
spotters. 

Precision instruments are so set 
as to lead a plane flying at a certain 
altitude and a certain speed. If that 
speed or altitude should be altered, 
the target will be too far away for 
any burst to be effective. For ex- 
ample, it takes about 15 seconds for 
a shell to get up 10,000 feet, and 
everything is set up accordingly. 



A man's work. Ramming shells 
weighing more than 40 pounds 
into a hungry breech requires 
coordination and sustained 
power. 

Should the pilot of a raider see 
the gun flash on the ground, or if 
the first few shots were to be off 
target enough to lack effect, he 
would become a hard man to touch 
from there on out. Nobody is going 
to be a willing clay pigeon if he can 
do anything about it. And he can. 

So the speed and timing — the 
only human element of a mechan- 
ical operation — come into their 
own. Here split seconds count, be- 
cause the speed of modern aircraft 
is such that tardy information, fal- 
tering team-work, any mistake or 
miscalculation throws the whole 
thing into a cocked hat. Here noth- 
ing, down to the finest detail, can 
go wrong. 

Gun crews of American anti-air 
batteries are among the finest 
trained teams in the world. 
Schooled since childhood by fast- 
breaking basketball or football 
plays, these men have since learned 
the value of coordination — and here 
they put it to its greatest use. 




Director. A sensitive precision 
instrument for use in directing 
gun to its target. 



Men on altitude finder get rough data from CP and search skies for Fifty calibre crew skeet shoots 
raiders. Computed altitude is relayed to "brains" of system, the for keeps. This AA weapon is 
director. + ie " on strafing aircraft. 



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"Slammin' 'er 'ome!" British gun crew fires at point-blank range during desper- 
ate fighting in current Libyan battle. 



Sixty-pounders let go at German positions during night bombardment in the 
desert. Note camouflage against air attack. 



Wind, Sand 

and Mars 

By Cpl. Harry Brown 

The desert was there in the beginning and it will be there m the end 
The Italians tried to beat it and it beat them They put up neat white 
houses and their officers wore scented uniforms and they rode in their 
tanks as though they were parading. The British built nothing They left 
the desert alone. They lived in their ranks and their armored cars and 
they caught the Italians and they broke them The parading tanks became 
twisted metal, and the scented officers were led away 





Desert battle wagons. British infantry tanks, pennants waving, plough in forma- 
tion on movement "outside the perimeter of Tobruk." Libyan sun heats heavy 
plates to kitchen-stove degree. 



The worst enemy m Libya is the 
desert It plays no favorites, and it 
has two irresistible weapons sun 
and sand. The sun makes metal too 
hot to touch Tank men fight 
stripped to the waist, m tempera- 
tures of L3Q and 140 A Libyan 
sandstorm, ealled a kham>oe:i. is a 
nightmare The khamsoen pieks up 
surface dust as tine as talcum pow - 
der and blows it a thousand miles 
aCTOSSS North Atnea It gets in men's 
e>es and noses and mouths and 
ears Khamsoens ean last tor days 
during their course soldiers driven 
to desperation, live in gas .masks 

Some vomit continually 

Somehow, nevert heless. men five 
and fight and manage to he hapr\ 
During the Siege of Tohruk. per- 
haps the worst phase of the six 

Libyan campaigns, the Australians 
even managed to achieve some 

form of contentment Thc\ pub- 
lished a newspaper. "Pinkum Oil 
("Straight Pope"), on a captured 
Italian, printing press They had no 
beer or cigarettes, but cigafS cap- 
tured from Italians and boor brew ed 
fight on the desert took their place 
They had outdoor conceits, and 
games of cricket and soccer, played 
at dawn, before the burning sun, 
made exercise impossible 
Distance — An Empty Phrase 

Sun and sand condition {he Style 
of warfare The various Libyan 

campaigns have been tank warfare 

in its purest form Tanks maneuver 
like battleships Conquered ten \- 
tory means nothing; ultimate suc- 
cess depends on the destruction of 

the enemy Patrols venture 500 or 

600 miles into enemy territory, but 
distance is an empty phrase To w in 

m the desert, one must destroy not 

the foe s towns and cities, but his 
tanks, his armored ears, his case- 
line supplies, his oil dumps Failing 
that, one fails all 

Pesert soldiers are not military 
fashion plates Tanned, unshaven, 
Oil-Smeared, they get little chance 
to keep clean. Their eyes crow nar- 
row in the glare of the sun and fine 
little wrinkles appear m the cor- 
ners They are always in then- 
tanks or under them. They live on 
tinned Uxxis; the desert produces 
nothing. Water is more important 
to them than bombs. One groat 
danger is boredom As far as the 
eye ean see, there is nothing Des- 
ert, sand, plateaus, escarpments — 
nothing else. Brown, yellow and 
gray are the colors of the desert, 
and the camouflaged tanks are 
eoually drab. 
The Cannoneers 

There are all kinds of weapons in 
the desert Tanks are most impor- 
tant, after them the planes The ar- 
tillery and the infantrv come next 



Italian artillerx saved the tacc of 
the Italian army It was made up 
of old guns some of them holdover> 
from 19 IS Many of its shells were 

duds and us precision instruments 

were of poor grade Yet it wa> food 

artillery, especially on Bxed tar* 

cets When the Italians fell back 
it was the artillery that Stayed bo- 
hind, fighting a rear guard action 
at long rang* 

There IS no trench warfare The 
only trencher m Libya are sht 

trenches, used as protection against 

an attack Slit trenches are simply 
narrow graves dug four feet deep 
m the sand When a tank or an ar- 
mored cai or a Hren gun came: 
stops tor the night, the first duty 

of its crew is to dig a slit trench 
Kor defense, there are land mines, 
Great fields of them he bidder 
along miles of desert and In the 
passes between the plateaus and 
escarpments it w as mine fields that 
trapped General Rommel in his 

most recent otTensive A master o: 
the Hank attack. Kommel slipped 
around the end ot the British line. 
onl> to be caught between British 
a; mored columns and nunc fields 
Yank Tanks 

American tanks had much to do 
w ith Kommel > plight, too Foi 
some months the British had beer 

receiving numbei s of American 

M-a and M-4 medium tanks, mount - 

ing 75-mm cannon Rommel didn't 

know it lie found his columns 

being blasted into the air From a 
distance of 1 500 yards, 300 yards 
further than hi> S7-mm tank cuns 

could carrj 

When ni.cht falls on Libya the 

desert is full of Fantastic terrors 
Darkness brings no cessation of 
battle 

On all sides signal lights Rare 

but in the desert distances are de 

eeptive The Rare might be 500 Feet 
awaj or five miles; there is no sure 

>\ stem of knowing 

The escarpments are dotted With 

dead tanks, smouldering steel skel- 
etons, German and British alike 
Distant gunfire sounds, and comes 

closer and closer as the battle veers 
toward the obser\ et 
Death Above, Below 

Overhead race the planes, invis- 
ible againsl the sky. Underfoot are 

the mine fields Tanks must move 
Slowly and uncertainly, feeling 
their way across terrain covered 
With mines Should the track of a 
tank touch off then- delicate mech- 
anisms, destruction and ohh\ ion 
follow 

On ever) side the tanks and ar- 
mored cars tire their guns The 
night is filled with flashes of tire 
Patrols stumble into ambushes, and 

their vehicles are left darning on 



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the sand, lighting up the gully or 
the escarpment where they were 
caught. At last, toward dawn, the 
desert moon comes up. The firing 
dies down. Attackers and attacked 
wait restlessly to join the battle 
again under the glare of a merciless 
sun. 

The Germans are giving the Brit- 
ish a light, but for once they are not 
sufficiently equipped. Supplies from 
the United States have given the 
British a preponderance of equip- 
ment. Moreover, the British have a 
large army in Libya, too, and a 
polyglot army in the bargain. Free 
Poles, Free French and Free Czechs 
are fighting in the desert, as are 
Indians, South Africans, New Zea- 
landers and Australians. On the 
Axis side, German troops have 
usurped the Italian command, and 
Wehrmacht men outnumber the 
Fascisti. 

Such is Desert War 

When the Germans came to Libya 
they came suddenly. The story is 
still told in Cairo of the first meet- 
ing between British and German 
forces. Three British armored cars 
were roaring down the coast road 
between Benghazi and Tripoli 
when three German armored cars # 
came frqm the opposite direction. 
The two patrols actually shot past 
each other. 

"My God," the British command- 
er said, "did you see who they 
were? Germans." 

The Germans, like the British, are not fighting the desert, and British 
and Germans have a common respect for each other. In the desert a man 
has to be tough and he knows that another man in the desert, enemy or 
not, is a tough man too. The Germans built no houses. They live in their 
tanks. They remember that the Italians tried to beat the desert and were 
beaten themselves. They know— as the British know— that the desert was 
there in the beginning and it will be there in the end. 






God, it's hot! British gunner, tanned, 
tough, alert for attack. It's a Bren gun 
under the cover. Maybe it looks like 
Malibu Beach, but, brother, it ain't. 
It's part of General Sherman's hell. 



"Fust Class Fightin' Man." Now Zea- 
lander with Tommy gun lights a butt. 
Note rough surface of desert, also the 
rough surface of the Anzac's mugg. 
This is a man who marched on Tobruk 
once, singing with thousands of others 
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." That 
was their song. And it was their own 
wizardry which held that isolated cita- 
del for month after torturous month. 
Men like this made Tobruk a name for 
history and a synonym for bravery. 



Bivouac. Helmeted British troopers in 
Egypt move out on practice march. This 
is a reinforcement unit. 



WET 



Like tins of less-precious gasoline, these containers of water are being 
at a desert base. Special convoys search out water holes, often travel 
of miles to supply troops. 



unloaded 
hundreds 




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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 

READY ON THE RIGHT . . . READY ON THE LEFT 



READY ON THE 



Firing 



Jmx months to the day after Pearl 
Harbor, the honorable ancestors of 
Japan's Emperor Hirohito stirred 
uneasily in their graves. 

A mighty Jap fleet, attempting 
what might have been intended as 
a prelude to invasion of Hawaii, 
stabbed at Midway, 1,300 miles to 
the west and was promptly hurled 
back with staggering losses by the 
U. S. Army, Navy and Marine Corps 
forces. Two or three enemy aircraft 
carriers were sunk, one or two se- 
verely damaged and the planes 
from three or more lost. Three 
battleships, six cruisers and three 
transports took terrific punishment. 
Some would never reach port. 

Upon us the Japs inflicted only 
slight damage. A U. S. aircraft car- 
rier was hit and a destroyer sunk. 
Casualties were few. 
Two Battles 

The battle, biggest so far in the 
Pacific, was one of two simultane- 
ous engagements which U. S. naval 
authorities said might well decide 
the course of the war in that ocean. 
The other was being fought in the 
vicinity of the Aleutian Islands, 
which string from Alaska toward 
Japan and form a constant threat 
to raid-jittery Tokio. What was 
happening there, however, was ob- 
scure. The weather was bad and 
the opposing naval units had tan- 
gled intermittently for several days 
without decisive action. 

It was the first time since Dec. 7 
that the Japanese had returned in 
force to the north Pacific. 

On June 3, at Dutch Harbor, in 
the Aleutians, the soldiers who had 
been performing such duties as 
K. P. with no more excitement than 
their comrades in the States, or at 
other quiet outposts, got their first 
taste of war. The fog that enfold^ 
the islands most of the year parted 
Out of the sky came planes with 
the Rising Sun insignia. They 
dropped bombs and flashed away, 
leaving a few warehouses burning 
beneath them. 

Next day they struck at Midwav 
There were no planes lined up on 
the ground ready for destruction, 
as once there ^ere at Pearl Harbor 

This time the planes were in th'^ 
air, not only to defend the island 
against the raiding force but to tak^ 
heavy toll of the warships battling 
American vessels in the surround- 
ing seas. Two days later, as the Jap 
fleet finally ducked its American 
pursuers under cover of darkness, 
the conservative commander of the 
U. S. Pacific Fleet gave his report 
on the respective losses. 

"This," he declared, "is the bal- 
ance sheet that Army, Navy and 
Marino Corps forces in this area 
offer their country this morning. 11 



Soldiers hearing the news over 
barrack-room radios got the signifi- 
cance: Pearl Harbor had, in part, 
been avenged. 

Whether the Japanese could 
bring up sufficient reinforcements 
immediately for a second attack 
was unknown, but the defenders 
were more than ready — they were 
eager. 

Strategy Uncertain 

Exactly what the Japs hoped to 
accomplish in their blows at Dutch 
Harbor and Midway was uncertain. 
Generally, however, it was believed 
that their plan was to divert Amer- 
ican naval forces toward Alaska, 
then strike south and seize Midway 
as a preliminary to invasion of 
Hawaii. Supporting this belief were 
two reports: First, that the three 
transports sunk were laden with 




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New U. S. -built tanks and powerful air support helped British stop Marshal 
Rommel's Afrika Korps in sixth big campaign of Libyan desert war. Failing in 
pincer drive toward Toburk, Nazi forces were nearly trapped in bitterest fighting 

desert has seen. 



troops; second, that 14 such vessels 
had recently been observed en 
route northward from Jap-con- 
trolled Marshall Islands. 

With the bulk of the Nippon fleet 
active north of the Equator, the 
tension "down under" was eased 
somewhat. Jap submarines lobbed 
shells for an hour into Sydney'? 
waterfront the night of June 8. 
Fighting continued on New Guinea, 
but American troops in Australia 
went on with their preparations for 
eventual Japanese invasion. They 
were comforted by the knowledge 
that time was, for the moment, on 
their side and that enemy lines were 
being stretched ever farther, ever 
thinner, over the Pacific. Sometime, 
they were confident, those lines 



would stretch to the breaking point 
And on Land . . . 

In China the Japs pushed on, bu' 
at tremendous cost. Westward from 
the East China Sea, they inched 
toward the rail center of Chuhsien. 
paying with many lives for each 
foot of ground taken from the Chi- 
nese. In three days of fighting out- 
side the old walle<d city 11,000 of 
them fell, Chinese sources declared. 
If the Japanese could capture 
Chuhsien, they could control the 
Thailand-Indo-China railroad, as- 
suring an overland supply route to 
their newly conquered territories 
south. 

An ominous huddle was takin^ 
place, meanwhile, in a little room 
in Chungking, end of the Burma 



Road. Chiang Kai-shek was con- 
ferring with General Stilwell, his 
American chief of staff; General 
Brereton, head of the American air 
force in India, and General Chen- 
nault. leader of the American Vol- 
unteer Air Force, which has been 
driving the Japs nuts in southern 
China and Burma. 

It looked as if Uncle Sam and his 
Western allies were planning hur- 
ry-up help for the hard-pressed 
Chinese. 

Bad News for Adolf 

On the other side of the world 
tad news flowed in a steady stream 
into the Wilhelmstrasse. Rommel's 
Afrika Korps had been stopped 
again in Libya. The Russians con- 
tinued to hold in the East. The 
R.A.F. was sending planes, a thou- 
sand at a time, to level whole areas 
of war industries. And now over 
the radio the British were warning 
the French, in effect: 

"If you value your lives, get out 
of the coastal areas, from the Bel- 
gian frontier down to the Pyrenees. 
We can't tell you where, and we 
can't tell you when, but we're com- 
ing.'' 

Black-faced Commandos paid 
nightly visits to Channel por's. 
sniping at sentries, damaging docks, 
destroying airdromes and harrying 
an already nervous defense force. 
With them were American staff of- 
ficers, preparing for the night when 
an ordinary Commando raid might 
develop into something a little bit 
bigger. 

R.A.F. Hammer-Blows 

The R.A.F. was building up to- 
ward peak activity. As many as 
1,200 planes roared across the 
Channel, seconds apart, to bomb 
German cities. 

4t City by city," Churchill had 
said, when he told how the British 
and Americans would avenge Cov- 
entry. And city by city it began to 
be. First Cologne — Rhineland city 
of 800,000, turning out war prod- 
ucts day and night. Stirlings, Hali- 
faxes, Wellingtons, Whitleys, Lan- 
casters and Hampdens dumped 



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K The Army Newspaper ■ JUNE 17 





Japanese sent more than 50 vessels to 
attack Midway, important outpost of 
Hawaii. An undetermined number, in- 
cluding at least two plane carriers, did 
not return. Scene of American triumph 
in Pacific's biggest sea battle is shown 
in map's center. In the Aleutians, to the 
north, Japs did slight damage in air 
attack on Dutch Harbor and clashed 
intermittently with American naval 
forces. Map clearly shows value of 
Aleutians to the U. S. as base for at- 
tacks upon Jap stronghold of Paramu- 
shiro, or upon Tokyo, and as defense 
for Alaska, logical invasion point. 



their bundles. Blenheims, Beau- 
fighters, Bostons and Havocs ho- 
vered by to protect them. When 
they left, Cologne's famous 14th 
Century cathedral still stood. Little 
else. 

The homeless from Cologne 
streamed to other cities, Essen 
among them. There again they 
heard the drone of planes, and 
there again they saw a city erupt 
in flames. Bremen, with its wharves 
and factories, was next. . . . "City 
by city," Churchill had said. 
Russia-Trouble 

The Nazis had aerial might to 
protect their cities — but they dared 
not take it from the task in the East. 
There Russia had beaten them to 
the punch on the long-awaited 
spring offensive. The Red Army 
was hammering at the gates of 
Kharkov and had even gone beyond 
it to the south. Repeated Nazi tank 
attacks upon the Black Sea fortress 



of Sevastopol had been thrown 
back; a week of air assaults there 
had cost the Germans 528 planes, 
the Russians 151, Soviet communi- 
ques claimed. 

As spring advanced toward sum- 
mer, the Nazis were hard put to 
prevent an offensive, let alone 
launch one. 
Rommel Again 

In North Africa the Nazis de- 
cided they were strong enough to 
take the offensive. Marshal Rom- 
mel's tanks started eastward across 
the Libyan desert — The Caldron, as 
the British called it — toward 
Egypt's border. 

They met a British force more 
powerful by far than any that had 
crossed and recrossed the desert in 
five previous campaigns. It had new 
U. S. -built tanks, with range and 
fire power equal to if not better 
than the German machines. 

After two weeks in which at 
times 1,000 tanks were locked in 
battle, the desert south of Tobruk 
was littered with sun-charred 
bodies and twisted shells of tanks, 
and a battered Nazi corps fought to 
hold a nine-mile gap in the front. 
Beaten so far, the Nazis were ap- 
parently striving to reorganize for 
another thrust. 
Clouds Over Europe 

Inside Europe, unrest grew. 
Storm troopers were shot, restau- 
rants bombed, in Paris. The Comi- 
tadji, fast growing guerrilla army, 
made war still necessary in the con- 
quered Balkans. Each dawn re- 



Jumping the gun on Nazi spring offensive, Russians put Nazis on defensive at 
Kharkov (1), but were themselves fighting hard to hold Sevastopol in Crimea (2). 
Light area southwest of Kharkov shows extent of Reds' advance in attempt tp 

encircle Kharkov. 



vealed new corpses of German sol- 
diers floating in Holland's canals. 
Two Czech patriots, snapping their 
fingers at Gestapo terror, ambushed 
and shot to death brutal Reinhard 
Heydrich, deputy Gestapo chief 



and Hitler's overlord of Czecho- 
slovakia. Throughout the continent, 
Nazi agents exacted in reprisal an 
ever soaring toll of lives. Food lines 
lengthened. They cast shadows, 
long shadows. 



PAGE 13 



Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 




THE POETS CORNERED 

Nor all your piety and wit 

Shall lure it back to cancel half a line. 

Omar K., Pfc. 1st Pyramidal Tent Co. 




PILL ROLLER 

There was a draftee horn Podunk 
Who said, "I'm a medico punk. 
To relieve their congestion 
And aid their digestion 
I've been rolling these pills till I'm 
sunk." 

THE YANKS ARE EN ROUTE 

Now there's a slim and pretty girl in 
France, 

Descended from the one of Armen- 
tieres; 

And only bat-eyed hangmen watch her 
dance. 

Hold on, and keep your smile, for 

we'll be there. 
And there's a brave and dark eyed 

girl in Greece, 
Who lives through hope in days of long 

despair. 

And has no bread nor wine to make 

her laugh. 
Hang on, and don't give up, for we'll 

be there. 

In Holland, where the tulips are all 
dead. 

There waits a maid with yellow hair, 
Praying while her country's veins are 
bled. 

Stay brave, and keep your faith, for 

we'll be there. 
From Greece to Spain, from Poland to 

the sea, 

The girls who lost their smiles can still 
compare 

A tyrant to a man, and wait to cheer 
The flag with Stars and Stripes. And 
we'll be there. 

Pvt. Arthur Emmons— I Oth Engrs. 




Somewhere in Ireland 

Dear Yank: 

If Yank is going to be another of 
those corny Army papers with car- 
toons about rookies peeling pota- 
toes and jokes about supply ser- 
geants and top-kicks, you can can- 
cel my subscription before I even 
subscribe. Before we left the United 
States it looked like all we ever saw 
about the Army was that sort of 
thing. And I for one do not want to 
be chased all over northern Ireland 
by the same damned thing. What do 
you say about giving us a break? 

Sgt. Anthony J. Lavagetto 

We promise to do our best to keep 
the com out. To us, the potato peel- 
er and the supply sergeant have 
grown a little thin and none of our 
readers are rookies. We will step 
heavily on those antique stories and 
cartoons. Brother, you are among 
friends. 



MY ONLY PLEA 

"Still laugh/' said I, "when I'm away. 
And gather all the flowers of May; 
Still keep my room, the pictures all, 
That I have loved upon the wall; 
For I shall want them every one 
The moment that the war is won. 

Still play the records, dance and sing. 
And spread no fears by sorrowing; 
Be happy, every time you can, 
For victory, work and pray and plan; 
For I shall want you looking well 
When we have fired the final shell. 

Still bake the pies, as it might be. 
That I were coming home to tea; 
Still plant the garden, roundabout. 
Still grub the sturdy thistles out; 
And stake the blue delphinium, 
As if this war had never come. 

For if this struggle shall be long, 
At home there must be mirth, and song; 
Since these are what we fight to keep. 
So hide away, when you must weep; 
And be as brave at home, as we 
Who fight in sky, on land and sea." 

SERGEANT GEORGE L DAVIDSON 
Headquarters Company 
116th Infantry 

THE BUGLER 

The bugler wakes us up each day; 
I wish to heck that he would play 
Over the hills and far away. 

CORPORAL ARDEN L MELOTT 
Headquarimrs Company 
722nd Military Police Battalion (II) 



Somewhere in Australia 

Dear Yank: 

There isn't anything down here 
but lizards. What I mean is that 
there isn't anything extra to listen 
to. We have a short wave that's 
pretty good, but there isn't enough 
of it. So we figured that you'd be 
willing to write Crosby and Allen, 
and maybe Benny, and tell them to 
talk louder or more often or some- 
thing. 

Very truly yours, 

T/Sgt. Mander Lunk 
Don't worry. You'll be getting 
more broadcasts. 




Trinidad 

Dear Yank: 

We were looking over an old Lee- 
Enfield rifle the other day, and it 
reminded me of different kinds of 
rifles, which I've always been in- 
terested in. A new magazine like 
yours might want to feature for- 



A TANKMAN AT THE GATES 

A tankman at the Pearly Gates 

Was faced by Old St. Pete, 
And told to go on down below, 

Because he was not neat. 
Says he, "I'm dirty all the time, 

I live in grease and murk; 
I don't sit at an office desk, 

I do the dirty work. 
I don't march up and down a post 

In uniforms so neat, 
Nor strap a pack upon my back, 

Nor blister up my feet. 
I know not what it is to bathe 

And shove, most every day, 
A bath tub or a sink inside 

A tank is in the way. 
Now if I were artillery 

I'd primp up every night. 
And look like Esquire all the time. 

But never know a fight. 
Or if I were oQ.M. lad, 

With uniforms so snappy, 
I'd catch most everybody's eye, 

And make the girls so happy! 
But being just a tankman 

I'm used to dirt and stuff; 
Now may I enter thru the Gates? 

I've lived thru Hell enough. 
Yes, being just a tankman 

I'm not much used to waitin'; 
Now may I live in Heaven, Sir, 

Or must I call on Satan?" 

SERGEANT JOHN V. SULLIVAN 
Company A 
191st Tank Battalion 



eign rifles sometimes. I mean with 
pictures and making comparisons 
with our Garands and Springfields. 
I thought it would be interesting. 
Just a suggestion. 

Yours truly, 
Pvt. Homer Alexander 
We'll see what we can do. 




Somewhere in Australia 

Dear Yank: 

A bunch of us were arguing last 
night about gas, and somebody said 
the worse a gas smells the less 
harmful it is. Lewisite smells like 
geraniums, phosgene smells like 
hay and tear gas smells like apple 
blossoms. That kind of stuff. Does 
it work that way all the time? 

Pvt. Marvin Wilson 

What about mustard gas — or do 
you like the smell of garlic any- 
way? There's ethyldichlorarsine, 
which has a biting odor and blisters 
the bejaysus out of you. There's 
chlorpicrin, or "puking stuff," which 
smells like flypaper. White phos- 
phorus, which can bum your arm 
off, smells like burning matches. 
Gas is gas, no matter how it smells. 



( jrTv two 

Vj ViK cents 

WORTH 

Chicago traffic cops have been 
told that they must learn to disre- 
gard remarks made by motorists 
due to their upset condition. This 
sounds like a new type of conser- 
vation program as the motorist is 
probably today's version of the 
Vanishing American. 



Der Fuehrer, according to Reichs- 
marshal Goering, has suffered deep- 
ly for his troops in Russia. This 
shows his noble character. We re- 
spect him as we respect the field 
pack which sympathizes with our 
shoulders. 



Secretary Stimson warns that 
Japan probably will try "face- 
saving" raids of our west coast. 
This is the wartime version of try- 
ing to keep up. with the Joneses. 



The Babyland Carriage Stores of 
New York City, in a recent report, 
refutes the charge that the birth 
rate increase is due to draft- 
dodgers' efforts. We knew it was 
the stork all along. 



Pvt. Joe Louis has asked relief 
from a $117,000 income tax bill due 
June 15. Never mind, Joe. Soon 
you'll be drawing $42 a month, then 
it'll only take you 2,785 months and 
three weeks to pay up. 



The Interceptor Commands have 
been renamed Fighter Commands. 
There's nothing like the war of 
words to confuse things. 

A.Columbia, Mo., man struck his 
wife recently and the judge fined 
him $15 — but not on a wife-beating 
charge. He was fined for breaking 
glass on the street. His wife wore 
spectacles. 



In Barron, Wis., a White Rock 
hen owned by Victor Wirt is the 
first reported casualty of Donald 
Nelson's increased food production 
program in Barron county. The hen 
laid a four-ounce egg, measuring 
six and a half inches from stem to 
stern — then died of fatigue. 




YA N K 

Acting Managing Editor, Pvt. Bill Richardson, 
Sig.; Acting Assistant Managing Editor, Corp. 
Harry Brown, Engr.; Acting News Editor, Pvt. 
Robert Moora, Inf.; Acting Feature Editor, Pvt. 
Douglas Borgstedt, Serv. Unit; Acting Photo Edi- 
tor, Pvt. Ralph Stein, Med.; Acting Art Editor, 
Pvt. Arthur Weithas, DEMI; Washington Cor- 
respondent, Sgt. Donald A. McGutre, FA. 
— Contributing Editors, T/ Sgt. Burgess H. Scott, 
Inf.; Sgt. Edward Cunningham, Med.; Sgt. Tom 
Long, MP; Sgt. Mack Morriss, Inf.; T/4gr John 
Bushemi, FARTC; Corp. Marion Hargrove, FARTC; 
Corp. Peter Paris, Engr.; Corp. Peter Woo I ley, 
Serv. Unit; Corp. David Breger, Sped. Serv.; 
Corp. Gordon Frye, Engr.; Corp. Fred Rosen, 
CASU; Pvt. Id Frank Brandt, Med.; Pvt. Id 
John Hay, Inf.; Pvt. Al Hine, Engr.; Pvt. Lloyd 
Shearer, Sped. Serv.; Pvt. H. N. Oliphant, Engr. 

Circulation, Pvt. Donald Cooke, FA; Pvt. 
G. S. McBride, Inf.; Pvt. William Potter, DEML 

Officer in Charge, Lt. Col. Egbert White; 
Business Manager, Major Fronklin S. Forsberg; 
Executive Editor, Copt. Hartzell S pence. 




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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 




Here's the YANK, brother. 

This is our newspaper, solely and exclusively for us in the ranks 
and for nobody else. 

It's not G.I., except in the sense we are G.L 
It's ours alone. 

Because we fight, it is a fighting newspaper. 
Because it is ours and because we are fighting men, it is here to 
reflect pride when we are proud, anger when we are sore. 
It is OUR record of what we're doing — in black and white. 
It IS us. 

When there is poetry, it will reflect our poetry. War always pro- 
duces poetry. 

When there is griping, it is here for that. War always produces 
griping. 

The YANK is each one of us. 
c As a reflection of ourselves, YANK is freedom, too; something 
our enemies are afraid to duplicate, and couldn't if they dared. 
They don't think like us. 

Our enemies will see YANK as us, because it is US. 

They will tear it apart. Their psychologists will analyze the 

words in YANK, our words. 

What a hell of a laugh! 

They can't figure it out. 

Because YANK is ours. 

Here's the YANK, brother. 




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PHTEJHAl A0— 



A Few Items That Require \o Editorial Comment 



Albert de Vleeschauwer, a mem- 
ber of the Belgian Government- in - 
Exile, says his people are "praying" 
for a Yank-British invasion of the 
European continent. Vleeschauwer 
has just reached the U. S. on a 
secret mission. 

Belgian resistance to the Nazis, 
the spokesman reported, is taking 
the form of industrial slowdown in 
factories and sabotage of vital ma- 
chinery. An underground resist- 
ance system is aiding British pilots 
shot down over Belgian soil and 
sneaking them back to England, 
hiding Allied secret agents and 
similar tasks, Vleeschauwer said. 
Also 52 underground newspapers 
are published in Belgium to coun- 
teract Nazi propaganda. 



Reports from Europe say that 
Hitler is patching up the Siegfried 
Line. A group of land mines, a crop 
of machine guns. 



YANK HAS THE 
ANSWH2S.... 




... to your problems. Well settle all 
arguments on military etiquette, love 
affairs, me National League and how 
to cook beans. Well sound off on 
who's right and who's wrong, and 
you can beat us up after the war's 
over. Write to YANK! 



Frederick Oeschner, the United 
Press correspondent, says that 
Adolf planned the Siegfried Line in 
one hell of a hurry. Oeschner, who 
was in Berlin when we entered the 
war and was therefore interned, 
until an exchange of journalists 
last week, says that Hitler swiped 
a copy of a private edition of plans 
for the French Maginot Line, stayed 
up all one night and a day reading 
it, then built his own Siegfried 
Line from those specifications. 

Hitler did a good job, too, Oesch- 
ner says, considering the fact that 
the fable insists he just spent some 
few hours designing it. Of course, 
he Jet the generals execute the or- 
ders, but he turned around and 
reciprocated to the generals months 
later, squaring the matter. 



enlistments prior to inauguration 
of the Canadian draft this year. 



OTTAWA — Canada ordered a 
100% increase in draft inductions 
effective July 1, according to official 
announcement by the Canadian 
Defense Department. During June 
7,000 men were called; during July 
the figure is 15,000. In addition 
there have been 10,000 voluntary 
enlistments per month. 

Canada's enlisted army will be 
600,000 strong within a year, the 
announcement said, not counting 
undisclosed thousands already in 
Britain or now in training under 



NORWALK, Conn. — Mrs. Stan- 
ley Knowles, sister of the late Brig- 
adier General Billy Mitchell, is 
"safe and in good health" in a Ger- 
man concentration camp at Lieb- 
enau in Wuerttemburg, according 
to her daughter, Mrs. Albert K. 
Yohn. Mrs. Knowles was captured 
in the invasion of Yugoslavia, where 
she was reported to be a member 
of the Comitadji, Yugoslav guer- 
rilla organization. 



Latest intelligence from Hono- 
lulu: 

Current joke is that the CO on 
Midway Island sent the following 
communique to Admiral Nimitz: 

"Japs lose pants trying to save 
face." 



Four Japs, killed in an abortive 
submarine raid on Sydney, were 
cremated with full military honors 
and their ashes started on the long 
voyage home via a Swiss war aid 
organization. 

Four Jap families are going to 
have a lot less hate in their hearts 
from here on out. Religion or not, 
they can't ignore that. 

Beau geste, Australia. 



Entire Issue Copyright, 1942, by The Yank. 
Printed in U.S.A. 



The following listing will give you, page by 
page, sources of all photographs in this issue 
of YANK. 

Cover page — Sgt. John A. Bushemi. 2 — Pix 
Inc. (Bob Leavitt). 3— U. S. Government. 4— 
Paramount Pictures, United Artists. 5 — Sgt. John 
A. Bushemi. 8— Sgt. Peter Lashe. 9— Arnold Ru- 



bin, Corp. Gordon T. Frye. 12 — British official 
photos. 13 — British official photos; bottom left, 
International News Service. 16 — International 
News Service. 18 — Acme. 19 — NBC photo; bot- 
tom, Acme. 20 — RKO Radio Pictures. 21— RKO 
Radio Pictures. 22 — International News Service. 
23 — Corp. Gordon T. Frye. 



BERLIN — Official Nazi radio 
broadcasts admit that the Czech 
town of Lidice has been wiped off 
the map because its inhabitants 
sheltered the patriots who assassi- 
nated Nazi gorilla Reinhard Hey- 
drich. 

Every man in the village was 
killed. Every woman was sent to 
a concentration camp. Every child 
was put in a Nazi "educational" in- 
stitution. The Germans say the 
population of the village was 483. 
Free Czech spokesmen say that 
may be all that were left for the 
final purge, but that before the 
Nazis took over, the town num- 
bered 1,200 persons. 

Anyway, the town is gone. Its 
name has been extinguished, its 
buildings destroyed. All because a 
conquered people couldn't take the 
brutalities of Heydrich any longer, 
and gave him what he deserved. 

That's life under Hitler. 



CAN Ybi/ DRAW, PAINT, 
<* MAKE" CARTOONS ? 




YANK wants artist contributors! If you 
can draw cartoons or make action 
sketches of what goes on where you 
are, send it to us at YANK, 205 East 
42nd St., New York City. 



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YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



6 H. M. S. Pepperpot' 
Brings Cargo of Tales 



Maskrey was short, jolly, and 
ruddy. Cassidy was moderately tall, 
dark, and somber. They are both 
able-bodied seamen in the British 
Navy, and they were sitting in a 
U. S. city Union Jack Club drinking 
warm American beer. 

Maskrey and Cassidy are watch- 
men on the cruiser Penelope, now 
in an Eastern port for repairs. They 
do twenty-four hours off and 
twenty-four hours' on, and when 
they're off duty they usually hang 
around the Club. 

The Penelope comes from Malta. 
While there she stood up under 
seven air raids a day until constant 
firing began to wear out her guns. 

"She's a good old girl," Maskrey 
said. "We called her 'H.M.S. Pep 
perpot' for awhile, because the Jer- 
ries put so many little holes in her 
decks. We filled up the holes with 
planks and called her 'H.M.S. Por- 
cupine. 1 Finally the bombs threw 
so much debris on her that we called 
her 'H.M.S. Rockgarden'." 

"We ought to call her 'H.M.S. 
God 'Elp 'Itler' now " 

Cassidy laughed. "I can't forget 
Malta," he said. "We were there, 
lying at anchor, when the Jerries 
threw over the worst they had. 
The ship ran out tof water, and we 
couldn't send to shore for any be- 
cause the small boats would have 
been strafed. We had to wait until 
night to get a drink. We were 
really parched then, I can tell you. 
N othing makes a man thirstier than 
firing a gun all day." 

"Remember Good Friday morn- 
ng?" Maskrey asked. 

"Good Friday morning was the 
worst," Cassidy said. "Worst of 
them all. We even used the six- 
inchers as flak." 

"Four-inchers too," Maskrey 
added. 

A Fair Hot Time 

"Everything," Cassidy said. 
"They came over like bloody 
beetles, the whole damned Luft- 
waffe, it seemed like. One would go 
away and two more would come 
along. It was a fair hot time. They 
hit us hard that day." 

Maskrey grinned. "We're still 
afloat," he said. 

"The bootlicks were shaking," 
Cassidy said. "Bootlicks are Ma- 
rines. We call them bootlicks or 
flunkies. They were shaking that 
day, all right." 

"So was I, mate," Maskrey said. 
"I never thought I'd see the tykes 
again." 

"There were minutes on Good 
Friday morning when I never 
thought I'd get to stand up to the 
altar," Cassidy said. "But now I'm 
going to. I'll be going back with a 
convoy one of these days." 

"Lucky bloke," Maskrey said. 
"I've got to hang around. But I'll 
hang around until Michaelmas if I 
can't find a tommy-gun for my 
tyke." 

"I've got some shopping to do, 
too," Cassidy said. "I've got to buy 
my girl some silk stockings. You 
can't get silk stockings in England, 
either." 

Maskrey and Cassidy are puzzled 
by America. <4 I don't mind the tall 
buildings," Cassidy said. "You get 
used to tall buildings. But the 

PAGE 1 6 




people are impolite. The men don't 
give up their seats in the busses. 
At home a conductor would tap a 
man on the shoulder and make him 
give up his seat." 

"You're right, mate." Maskrey 
said. Maskrey is from Lancaster- 
shire, and he says "coom" for 
"come." His town is Manchester, 
and it is a matter of pride with him 
that his home is only twenty min- 
utes from where Gracie Fields, the 
comedienne, was born. Cassidy 
doesn't think much of Gracie 
Fields. "Ella Logan lived only 
three streets from me in Glasgow." 

And She Says 

The pace of American life is odd 
to them. They like Americans, and 
neither of them has had a fight with 
an American sailor, though Cassidy 
was once struck by a woman on 
a New York street. "She comes up 
to me," he said, "and she's a bit 
under the influence. 'Hello, you 
dirty Limey,' she says. 4 Why aren't 
you off fighting your war?' and then 
she belts me one. I pacified her." 

Maskrey wants to get home for 
Christmas, and right now he's look- 
ing around this town for a toy 
tommy-gun to take to fi is little boy. 
There are no toy tommy-guns in 
England. He has Christmas day all 
planned out. "First I'll go around 
to the brewery and get a goose." 
he said. "They give a goose each 
Christmas to everyone who's 
worked for them. An Irish goose. 
There's nothing like a goose or a 
turkey for Christmas. I like a goose, 
though. A turkey's too dry, but a 
goose is oily and smooth. There's 
nothing like an Irish goose." 

"I'll take mutton any day," Cas- 
sidy said. 

"Mutton is all right when it's 
hot," Maskrey said. "When it's cold, 
though, I don't like it." 

Mutton-Fed Fighters 

"You should have been at To- 
bruk, mate," Cassidy said. "There 
were a lot of Aussies there, blokes 
who'd been raised on mutton. Any 
one of those blokes would have 
given his grandmother's teeth for a 
slice of cold mutton." 

Maskrey nodded solemnly. Cas- 
sidy is a Naval Reserve man. He 
was called up when war was de- 
clared, and he has been serving in 
the Mediterranean ever since. He 
was on his cruiser when, with other 
units of the British Mediterranean 
Fleet, she caught up with a big 
Italian ("Itics," Cassidy calls them) 
convoy off Sicily. The convoy 
totaled 15 ships and five destroyers, 
and the British sent 10 ships and 
three destroyers to the bottom. "It 
was a good go," Cassidy said. 

Cassidy's cruiser spent six days 
in Tobruk harbor when German 
and Italian desert forces were be- 
sieging the place. He has great re- 
spect for the Australian and In- 
dian troops who held the battered 
town. "It was no spot to be in," he 
said. "Everyone in the town had 
malaria or scurvy or dysentery. The 
water they drank could get up and 
walk away. They sent airplanes 
over the place every day, dive 
bombers and God knows what else. 
They used to try and knock us off. 
Poorest marksmanship I ever saw, 
though. They never even blistered 
our paint." 




The Germans claimed this was a British ship that Stukas reduced to ruin, but they 
don't prove it. To the left, two English sailors tell about Stukas and destroyers, but 
they prove it. 




Somewhere in Australia — They were guzzling suds at a bar, a handful 
of Aussies and a half dozen Yanks, and when their throats became too 
moist for conversation they began to swap songs. 

The sandy-haired lad from Metuchcn, N. J., put his glass on the bar 
and grinned. Here, he thought, is where these babies get a taste of real 
American folk music. And he opened his mouth and bellowed forth the 
first bars of that old favorite, "Hut Sut Ralson on the Rillarol." 

It was a hit all right, and the Aussies were properly impressed. They 
wanted to know what a "hut sut" was and if the "Rillarol" flowed into the 
Atlantic or the Pacific. They insisted that the words be written out. Then — 

The Hit Parade— Close Order 

"We got a pretty good one ourselves," said one. And not one. nor two, 
but the gang of them opened up on a little ditty called "Waltzing Matilda/' 

That was a night or two after the boys landed. Today there's hardly a 
Yank in Australia who isn't familiar with "Matilda," though the percent- 
age of those who know the words is small. It's the favorite of the Aussies, 
and it'll probably be a favorite on the juke-boxes back in the States when 
the boys come home. It'll have to be. 

"It s the damnedest song you ever heard," said one of the Americans. 
"We thought Hut Sut' was a tongue twister. Hell, it's a nursery rhyme 
alongside o' this thing. An' slang! It's got our jitterbug lingo stopped!" 

Here are the words to "Waltzing Matilda": 

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong 
Under the shade of a coolibah tree, 

And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled, 
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. • 
Waltzing, Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, 
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. 

(Repeat third line of preceding verse.) 
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. 
Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong. 
Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee. 
And he sang as he stowed that jumbuck in his tuckerbag: 
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. 
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, etc. 
Up rode the squatter mounted on his thoroughbred, 
Up rode the troopers, one, two and three. 
Where's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tukerbag? 
You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. 
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, etc. 

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong, 
You'll never take me alive, said he. 

Now his ghost may be heard as you pass by the billabong, 

You'll come a-waltzing, Matilda, with me. 

Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda, etc. 
It didn't take long to catch on to Aussie slang. Matilda wasn't a fair- 
haired, full-bosomed lass who had been done wrong by. In fact, to the 
consternation of the Yanks, Matilda wasn't a gal at all. Matilda was loot, 
and waltzing was carrying it — in a tuckerbag, of course, which is the bag 
any jolly swagman, or hobo, carries his loot in. A jumbuck was an animal 
native to Australia, a billabong was a stream and a squatter was a land- 
owner — which made the song a ballad about a poor hobo who took a 
powder rather than let the bulls pinch him for poaching. 

The song was first sung, incidentally, 'way back in World War days. 
There are varying versions of the lyrics, and there are varying versions 
of who sang it first, but most of the Aussies credit it to their cavalry dur- 
ing the Allenby campaign in Palestine. As a marching song, it's right in 
the groove. 





YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



WHh all this talk in Congress about 
a pay increase for us, how about 
some figures on the U. S. Army pay 
scale in comparison with that of other 
armies. PVT. B. SOLSTEIN 

For your $21 or $30 right at the 
moment, basic minimum monthly 
pay for soldiers in other armies is: 
Australia $45.00; Canada $30.00; 
Germany $21.60; Mexico $12.40; 
Britain $12.20; Argentina $4.76; 
Russia $4.00; Brazil $2.80; Italy 
$1.51; Turkey $0.40; Japan $0.30; 
China $0.28. 

See story elsewhere in this issue 
on what you'll be getting soon. 

♦ ♦ * 

Once and tor all, what's the score 
on this left-handed salute business 
in the Army? Is it permissible, and 
if so, when? 

S/SGT. A. MOLINSKI 

Don't know any more about than 
what the AR says: that the hand 
salute, rendered anywhere, is with 
the RIGHT hand. Some people may 
take exceptions, but the book says 
uh-uh. 

♦ * ♦ 

When I took out Class N Insurance 
I was under the impression it paid off 
only in case I should happen to kick 
off for keeps, later on I was told the 
policy contains provisions for collec- 
tion on injuries, too. 
How about it? 

CORP. C. CONDOS 
Class N pays off certain amounts 
for total disability, or disability 
which renders you unfit for mili- 
tary service. For the details, talk to 
your CO. 

♦ * ♦ 

Would you mind educating a poor 
dog-face as to the origin of this Horst 
Wessel Lied referred to in everything 
coming out of Germany? 

CORP- A. V. L. 
Horst Wessel was a bully boy in 
Munich who was shot by a couple 
of guys for personal-political rea- 
sons during the earlier days of Hit- 
ler's scramble for power. Wessel 
had written words to an old Austri- 
an drinking song and, sensing a 
martyr angle, Mouthpiece Goebbels 
grabbed it up and made a national 
party song of same. The martyr idea 
was that the mortally-wounded 
Nazi supposedly refused to admit a 
Jewish physician who was called 
to treat him and as a result died of 
pure pig-headedness. 

♦ * ♦ 

How many four star generals have 
there been? How many are alive 
now? How many are in active service 
now? This is to settle a bet. 

PVT. HERB FiCKES 
Here's the dope: There have been 
eleven since the rank was created 
in 1799. First to hold it was Ulysses 
S. Grant- After him came William 
T. Sherman, Philip H. Sheridan, 
and Tasker H. Bliss. Seven men still 
alive have held or still hold the 
rank. They are Generals Pershing, 
March, Summerall, Hines, Craig, 
Marshall, and MacArthur. Only the 
last two, Marshall and MacArthur, 
hold the rank in active service. 
Hope you won your bet. 



We've been having an argument 
for the past three weeks on which is 
better, the Gar and M-I or the old 
Springfield. Everybody admits the 
~~M-f fires faster, but a lot of the guys 
say it isn't accurate and also that its 
machinery inside is too complicated 
and is liable to crack up under com- , 
bat conditions? Could you throw any 
light on the argument? 

CORP. HARVEY MILFORD 
Was a time, a year or so ago, 
when this subject would have been 
too hot a potato for us to handle. 
People were furiously debating the 
merits of the Springfield, the M-l, 
and the Johnson automatic rifle. 
Each weapon had its fans and a 
stranger horning in on the argu- 
ment was lucky to out with a whole 
skin. Now, under combat conditions 
in the Philippines, the Garand 
has proved itself beyond question. 
After a few clips, the Garand is not 
quite as accurate as the old Spring- 
field, but its firing-speed and the 
fire-power built up through that 
firing-speed more than make up for 
this. Its inner mechanism is more 
complicated than the Springfield's, 
but not so complicated as to go hay- 
wire under field conditions. Gar- 
ands stood up on Bataan, and that 
was no picnic. We're not trying to 
talk down the Springfield; it's a 
swell rifle. But, for all-around com- 
bat use and as a basic arm, you can't 
beat the Garand, and General Mac- 
Arthur said so, publicly, not long 
ago. 

♦ # * 

f haven't seen any tank warfare 
yet, but I think I'm going to before 



the war is over. I wonder H you could 
tell me whether and how often tanks 
are likely to be stopped by rifle fire? 

PVT. CAHIR PRYGELSKI 

Definite dope on this question is 
almost impossible to assemble. And, 
if we could get it, it would probably 
come under the heading of "Mili- 
tary Secrets." Light and medium 
tanks are vulnerable to rifle fire. 
It's the old combination of luck and 
good marksmanship that can dis- 
able them. Using armor-piercing 
ammunition (the bullets with the 
black tips) and aiming at the firing 
slits, you may be able to louse up 
the occupants of any size tank. Even 
with regular ammunition, a strong 
fire concentration will force the 
enemy tank boys to keep their fir- 
ing and steering slits closed to the 
minimum, will make them lose vis- 
ibility and maneuverability, will 
help to make them easy prey for 
your own anti-tank outfit. 

* ♦ * 

What's the low-down on soldiers' 
marrying? When I left the States, I 
understood that a private was sup- 
posed to get permission from his su- 
perior officer in order to marry. Of 
course, hardly anyone did, but that 
was the way it was on the books. 
Now I hear that this has been 
changed. Has it? And, if it has, how? 
PFC. CHARLEY BROWN 
Your rumor was correct. As you 
said, it used to be necessary ( for the 
record) for a soldier to get permis- 
sion to marry. Now, however, you 
can marry whom you like, but try 
tcr do it during off-duty hours. By 
the way, how are the girls in Iceland? 




Ill have to search her myself, Gibson, if that's all 
you can find on her." 



PHILADELPHIA — Search for the 
thief with the delicate touch is 
on. He stole a fire alarm box, dis- 
connecting it without setting off the 
alarm. 

HEMPSTEAD, L. I. — A bonfire 
spread to a building at 228 Front 
St., did $10,000 damage and caused 
injuries to five firemen. 

PORTLAND, Ore. — What Iceland 
needs is not a good cigar — but a 
good hamburger stand. That's the 
opinion of Marine Private James L. 
Smith, stationed on the frigid isle, 
who says the food is fine, but "an 
American hamburger" would look 
awfully good. 

BOSTON — The run of weakfish 
on the Atlantic Coast continues to 
be composed principally of small 
'uns. This doesn't include Nazi sub- 
marines, but the Navy admits the 
fishing for this species is good this 
season. 

WASHINGTON, D. C — The prac- 
tice of soldiers and civilian stran- 
gers exchanging letters has re- 
ceived a stern frown from the War 
Department. The reason is obvious. 
Some of those strangers are not just 
writing for fun. 

ST. LOUIS, Mo.— It looks as if the 
"good old days" were coming back, 
at least, in St. Louis. A bill has 
been introduced prohibiting stables 
within 100 feet of dwelling places. 
Numerous complaints have been 
coming in about persons converting 
their garages into horse barns. 

RED ARMY TANK BASE — A bri- 
gade of American medium and light 
tanks has been assembled and is 
ready to go into line. They will 
be joined with Soviet and British 
tanks at the front. Two or three 
American tanks are now at the 
front going through rugged tests, 
but nothing definite has been heard 
from them as yet. Several other 
brigades are in the process of for- 
mation. 

TOKIO — The tunnel recently 
completed under the Shimonoseki 
Strait, between the cities of Shim- 
onoseki and Moji in southern Japan, 
will be opened soon for freight traf- 
fic only. 

ASHTABULA, O.— The Ashtabula 
Court House, built in 1884, has 
burned, destroying all marriage, 
birth and other vital statistics rec- 
ords of the entire county for the 
last 60 years. 

CORWELL, Miss. — Ideal weather 
has given this region its biggest to- 
mato crop since 1923, in a season 
when prices are highest in years. 

GEORGETOWN, N. Y.— Joseph H. 
Morris, 29, and Fred Sebring, 27, 
were killed when the truck on 
which they were riding overturned 
near here. Both were Georgetown 
football stars of the 1933 unde- 
feated high school {£jim. Both were 
due for army induction soon. 

PAGE 17 



The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 





Hoi's lor DHViim* 



U. S. Training Thousands for 
Russia, Germany Both Using 

It's a dog s life, you say? Maybe 
you're right, brother; they're even 
drafting dogs for it now. 

The Army wants 2,000 of them, 
from Great Danes to poodles. Once 
trained, they ean do plenty to help 
the guy up front — run messages, do 
Sentry duty, string telephone wires 
and tote ammunition and medicine, 

Dogs for Defense, a non-profit 
organization, is doing the job. At 20 
canine training camps in the U. S., 

DFD's volunteers — dog fanciers, 
trainers and handlers — are whip- 
ping in shape the nucleus of an 
eventual corps of 50.000. Already at 
numerous Army posts, airfields and 
munitions plants, thoroughbreds 
from 16 breeds are patrolling with 
sentries. One sentry with a dog. 
DFD figures, is worth six without. 

The idea is not new. In World 
War I 75,000 dogs were used, among 
them the late film star Rin-Tin-Tin. 
Washington became dog-conscious 
when the American Kennel Club 
reported long before Pearl Harbor 
that the Nazis had shipped to Japan 
25,000 dogs trained for military 
service. Investigation showed that 
in 10 years Germany had trained 
200,000 for army and police work. 

Small dogs, such as Sootties, 
wire-hairs, Manchesters and poo- 
dles are particularly good at guard 
duty where they can remain incon- 
spicuously in one small area. The 
Navy has asked for Scotties to stand 
watch when ships are in dock, and 
munitions plants are using them to 
guard warehouses. For front-line 
duty, however, they have not suffi- 
cient speed or endurance. 

Medium - sized dogs — Afghans, 
airedales, Dalmatians, greyhounds 
and, of course, shepherds — are best 
in combat. They are alert, fast and 
small enough to be difficult targets. 
Oddly, hunters are not good war 
dogs. By instinct they are silent 
when they scent a quarry, whereas 
the good war dog must voice a 
warning promptly. 

For its recruits DFD depends 
on patriotic dog owners. There are 
plenty. A Pearl Harbor widow 
brought in a Great Dane on her way 
to work in a defense plant. An 



War; 
Them 



eight -year-old Buffalo boy donated 
the boxer bitch he got for Christ- 
mas. Hundreds of others volun- 
teered their pets. 

Basic training for the canine sol- 
dier lasts six weeks. If he turns out 
to be pampered or just plain dumb, 
he will be found out in that time. 

Otherwise, at the end of the course. 

he is ready for the field or his sentry 
post, He comes to his handler s side 
-immediately when told to "heel." 
He scouts through indicated woods 
or fields at the command "out." He 
returns promptly when told to 
come." Of primary importance, 
he sounds ofT as soon as he detects 
strangers. His trainers boast that 
he has six times the perception of 
a human guard and can warn of an 
enemy 100 to 200 yards away. 

After the final week, in which he 
gets acquainted with the soldier 
assigned to handle him, the new 
member of the canine corps receives 
his uniform, a white rubberized 
harness. And, of course, his dog 
tags. 



Out in Los Angeles, Prince Carl demonstrated a short-wave device 
which is used for transmitting instructions by remote control to army 
dogs in the field. Prince Carl, with his radio, is shown upper left. 
And above, he demonstrates his army tactics in giving "little aid or 
comfort" to the enemy. 

■ i 

Itcrliu Overseas Show 

He Did It Before and He Is Doing It Again 



In the last war the Army put on 
a musical comedy, Yip, Yip Yap- 
hank, that finally hit France, and 
an Army musical comedy will play 
to A.E.F. audiences in this war too, 
if ex-Sgt. Irving Berlin has any- 
thing to say about it. Yip, Yip. Yap- 
liank was his baby, and his new 
musical comedy, Tliis Is The Army, 
IS now in rehearsal. 

It s purely a G.I. show. Until re- 
cently Berlin's headquarters were 
at Camp Upton, L. L, and rehearsals 
were put on in the guard house. 
Berlin lived in barracks so that he 
could be closer to the cast and to 
S Sgt. Ezra Stone (Radio's Henry 




Out at Camp Upton, Long Island, Irving Berlin is back where he was 
stationed in 1918. But this time he's producing his own musical 
show, 



Aldrich), who is his co-director. 
Big Names 

There are 200 men in the show. 
Some of the cast are rookies, some 
veterans. Few are what Broadway 
calls Big Names; they're just guys 
who like to hoof a little or sing. 
They're working their necks otT, 
too. 

Customs Are Customs 

The troupe will not have to stand 
guard, but one full platoon, drawn 
from the cast, stands retreat every 
night. 

"We've got some sweet musicians 
in the orchestra," Stone says. 
"Johnny Mince is at clarinet — he 
used to be with Tommy Dorsey. 
From Jimmy Dorsey's band we've 
got Joe Lippman, piano, and Don 
Matteson, trombone. We've got 
them from Army bands, from Lo- 
pe.*.. Goodman, Lewis, Shaw„ the 
Philadelphia Symphony and the 
Philharmonic. Our stufT isn't, all 
sweet and it isn't all swing, and the 
boys are a scream in some rehear- 
sals. The classical boys feel a little 
sad when they have to beat out 
honest-to-God swing, and the 
swing boys feel cheated when they 
have to play strictly from the book. 
Between them we've got an orches- 
tra that would open your eyes." 

"It's a fast-paced show/* Berlin 
says. "A show that the, boys will 
like, 90 % song and dance. Last 
time, we got Yip, Yip right up to 
the front, and this time we're going 
to try to do the same thing. The 
front today is all over the world, 
and it's going to be hard to do. We 
may have to split up into small 
touring companies, but some way, 
somehow, we're going to get it 
across." 



PAGE 18 



GJ. Shakespeare 

Macbeth and Macduff hacked 
away at each other in an Army 
camp this month. The camp was 
Fort Meade, and the occasion was 
the first time that Shakespeare has 
hit a G.I. audience. The Bard went 
over big. Bucks from Boston and 
yardbirds from Ypsilanti cheered 
the Maurice Evans production; it 
took seven curtain calls to satisfy 
them. 

Frankly an experiment, the per- 
formances of "Macbeth" were free, 
Evans footing the expenses of the 
three-night stand himself. During 
intermissions questionnaires were 
distributed to the audience. Did 
Private Rheum like the show? Did 
Private Stock want more Shake- 
speare? The answer to both ques- 
tions was yes. 

One Man's Meat . . . 

The military man's reaction to 
the play varied with the military 
man himself. Some soldiers were 
frankly enthusiastic, others rather 
bewildered. All, however, were ex- 
cited by what is probably the most 
compact and tense of Shakespeare's 
plays. It was the first legitimate 
production that some men had ever 
seen. 

Maurice Evans and Judith An- 
derson, who must have felt that 
they were on the spot, acted beau- 
tifully; their voices carried to the 
farthest reaches of Fort Meade's 
Theater No. 4. 

Our correspondent, himself a 
private, went around after the per- 
formance to get reactions to the 
play. He found that almost all the 
men he questioned wanted to see 
more Shakespeare, one sergeant 
saying that he hoped they'd try 
"Romeo and Juliet" next. Several 
claimed that they enjoyed "Mac- 
beth" more than the run-of-the- 
mill musical shows that have been 
going around to the camps. Prize 
reaction was obtained from a Rookie 
from Senaca Falls, New York. tl I 
liked them dools," he said simply. 

Evans hopes to be able to take 
"Macbeth" on an extended tour of 
Army camps in the fall. 



At the present time there are three or- 
ganizations in the States concentrating 
on short wave broadcasts to the A.E.F.: 
The Columbia Broadcasting System, the 
National Broadcasting Company, and 
the Coordinator of Information. Below 
you will find the stations affiliated with 
each outfit. In practically all cases all the 
stations in one organization carry all 
its programs. 

Short wave being what it is, do not 
take the directional beams listed too 
seriously. A station beamed on Northern 
Europe for example may very well be 
picked up in Australia. 

That's what the Signal Corps told us 
anyway. 

CBS 

WCBX-15270 KC-19.6 meters 

Beamed on Europe 

WCRC-11830 KC-25.3 

Beamed on Europe 
WCDA-1 1830 KC-25.3-and 17830 KC-16.9 
Beamed on Latin America 

NBC 

WRCA-15150 KC-19.8-and 31.02 

Beamed on Europe and Australia 
WNBI-17780 KC-16.8-and 25.23 

Beamed on Europe and Latin America 
WBOS-15210 KC-19.72-and 25.26 

Beamed on Europe and Latin America 

COI 

WRUL-11790 KC-25.4 

Beamed on Far East 
WRUW-9700 KC-30.9 

Beamed on Far East 

WRUS-6040 KC-49.6 

Beamed on Far East 

WJQ-10010 KC-30.0 

Beamed on Australia 
WBOS-15210 KC-19.72 

Beamed on Europe 

WCW-15850 KC-18.9 

Beamed on South Africa 
WCB-15580 KC-19.3 

Beamed on Europe 



YANK The Army Newspaper 



Add Hardships of War 

If your favorite program on 
the air from the States is cut 
off suddenly and your radio 
dummies up all over the band, 
blame it on the Axis. 

When the Japs raided the 
Dutch Harbor Base off Alaska 
on June 3rd, all radios along 
the West Coast from Canada 
to Mexico were silent for eight 
hours as a precautionary 
measure. A second silence was 
ordered the following night by 
the Western Defense and 
Fourth Army Interceptor 
Fighting Command. 

The reason is obvious: 
transmitters are silenced to 
prevent enemy planes, if any, 
from locating themselves and 
coming in on the beam. 



O^i ft. Mr f 





A. E. F. RADIO SCHEDULE*. . . Indicates 

MONDAY, JUNE 15th 

♦12:00 M . 12:30 AM. Here's News From Home 

WRUl, WRUW, WRUS 
3:00 AM. 3:30 AM.Here's News From Home 

KWID 

• 6:30 AM. 7:00 AM.Here's News From Home 

WJQ 

7:00 AM. 8:00 AM. Kate Smith Hour (CBS) 

* 8.30 AM. 9:00 AM.Here's News From Home 

WJQ 

9:00 AM. 10:00 AM. The Army Hour (NBC) 

9:30 AM. 10:00 AM.Here's News From Home 

WDO 

10:15 AM. 10:30 AM. Songs (NBC) 

10:30 AM. 11:00 AM. Fashions in Jazz (NBC) 

♦12:30 PM. 1:00 PM . Here's News From Home 

WRUL, WRUW, WDO 

* 1:00PM. 1:15PM. EssO Reporter (NBC) 

1:15 PM. 1:45 PM. Wheeling Steelmakers (NBC) 

• 1:45 PM. 2:15 PM. Here's News From Home 

WBOS 
Home 

WBOS 
Home 




the program runs daily through the week 

9:00 AM. 9:30 AM . Service Serenade (NBC) 

10:00 AM. 10:30 AM. Famous Jury Trials ..(NBC) 
10.30 AM. 11:00 AM. Kay Kyser (NBC) 

FRIDAY, JUNE 19th 

6:45 AM. 7:30 AM. Family Hour (CBS) 

7:30 AM. 8:00 AM. Gay Nineties Revue.. (CBS) 
9:00 AM. 9:30 AM. Service Serenade ...(NBC) 
10:00 AM. 10:30 AM. Army -Navy -Marine Band 

(NBC) 

10:30 AM. 11:00 AM. Fashion in Jazz (NBC) 



* 2:30 PM. 3:00 PM. Here's News From 



3:00 PM. 



3:30 PM. Here's News From 

WCB, WCW 

* 1 1 :00 PM . 1 1 : 1 5 PM . American Hour News . (NBC) 

•11:15PM. 11:30PM. Sports (NBC) 

11 :30 PM. 12:00 M. . Victory Parade (NBC) 



6:45 AM. 

7:00 AM. 

9:00 AM. 
10:30 AM. 
11:00 AM. 

1:15PM. 



7:00 AM 
7:30 AM 
9:00 AM 
1:15PM. 

7:00 AM 



TUESDAY, JUNE 16th 

7:00 AM. Gene Autry (CBS) 

7:45 AM. We the People (CBS) 

9:30 AM. Service Serenade ...(NBC) 
11:00 AM. Information Please ..(NBC) 
11:30 AM. Truth or Consequences (NBC) 
1:45 PM. Doctor I.Q .(NBC) 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17th 

7:30 AM. Take It or Leave It... (CBS) 

8:00 AM. The First Line (CBS) 

9:30 AM. Service Serenade (NBC) 

1:45 PM. Horace Heidt (NBC) 

THURSDAY, JUNE 18th 

8:00 AM. Lux Radio Theatre ...(CBS) 



It's Dinah Shore, she with the soft voice, and a bunch of soldiers. The 
soldiers are not exactly veterans. They have been at an Army Air Force 
Replacement Center for just three days now. Dinah is short-waved to the 
A.E.F. by NBC on its "Fashions in Jazz" program. 

Purged of soap-opera corn, sing- 
ing advertising and amateur music 
from the hills, radio programs rep- 
resenting a million dollars worth of 
talent are being beamed by short 
wave to 6.1/8 on foreign service 
around the world. 

The War Department says its 
''Command Performance," all-star 
show aired Sunday nights, is heard 
all over. Letters from Surinam, 
Guatemala, Greenland, Iceland, the 
Canal Zone and other spots show 
the AEF is picking it up on all 
fronts. 

Talent Terrific 

With NBC contributing the bulk 
of the overseas shows at the mo- 
ment, the concentration of avail- 
able talent reads like a gold star 
edition of the Radio Guide annual: 
Dinah Shore, Jack Benny, Kay Ky- 
ser, Fibber McGee and Molly, Fred 
Allen, Henry Aldrich, Bob Hope, 
Phil Baker, Al Pearce, Burns and 
Allen, Bing Crosby, Fanny Brice, 
Bill Stern, Ted Husing and Grant- 
land Rice, to name a few. 



SATURDAY, JUNE 20th 



6:45 
7:00 

9:00 
9:15 
10:00 
10:30 
11:00 

11:30 
12:00 

12:30 
1:15 
11:15 
11:30 



AM. 
AM. 

AM. 
AM. 



7:00 AM. Sports 
8:00 AM. Cheers 



Review (CBS) 

from The Camps 

(CBS) 

9:15 AM. Service Serenade ...(NBC) 
9:30 AM. Sports Program .... . (NBC) 

AM. 10:30 AM. Bob Hope (NBC) 

AM. 11:00 AM.Schaefer Revue (NBC) 

AM. 11:30 AM. Fanny Brice & Ralph Morgan 

(NBC) 

AM. 12:00 Noon. The Aldrich Family. (NBC) 
Noon. 12:30 PM. Ellery Queen Mysteries 

(NBC) 

PM. 1:00 PM. Burns & Allen (NBC) 

PM 1:45PM.AI Pearce & Gang ...(NBC) 
PM. 11:30 PM. Dramas by Olmstead. (NBC) 
PM. 12:00 M.. Basin Street ..(NBC) 



SUNDAY, JUNE 21st 

4:30 AM. 5:00 AM.Command Performance(KGEI) 

9:00 AM. 9:15 AM. News (NBC) 

9:15 AM. 9:30 AM. Bill Stern (NBC) 

9:30 AM. 10:00 AM. Fitch Bandwagon ...(NBC) 
10:00 AM. 10:30 AM.Command Performance (NBC) 
10:30 AM. 11:00 AM. Fibber McGee & Molly (NBC) 
11:00 AM. 11:30 AM.Command Performance(KGEI) 
11:00 AM. 11:30 AM. National Barn Dance. (NBC) 
1 1 :30 AM . 1 2:00 Noon . Command Perform. . (CBS) 
12:00 Noon. 1:00 PM. Kraft Music Hall . . (NBC) 

1:15 PM. 1:45 PM. Johnnie Presents (NBC) 

1:30 PM. 2:00 PM.Command Performance(WGEA) 
9: 1 5 PM . 9:45 PM . Command Performance (CBS) 
1 1 : 1 5 PM . 1 1 :45 PM . Command Performance (NBC) 



All times listed are Eastern War Time. By consulting the time guide and employing a little 
elementary arithmetic, you can figure out when each broadcast will reach your base. 





This is purely an experiment-noble or not. It's a picture of Maurice Evans, 
with a beard, and it's his experiment, not ours. Evans, a Shakespearean 
actor, wanted to determine whether American soldiers liked Shakespeare. 
Here's he shown at Ft. Meade, Md., at a debut performance. With him, 

Miss Judith Anderson. 



CLIP AND SAVE 

TIME IN IMPORTANT AREAS 
OF THE WAR WORLD 

When iff is noon (Eastern War Time) 
in New York City: 



Place 

Aleutian Islands 

Hawaii 

Alaska .... 5 

Nome 

Fairbanks 

Juneau 

Mexico 

Guatemala 

Panama 

Jamaica 

Cuba 

Aruba (D.W.I.) ... 

Nova Scotia 

Puerto Rico 

Bermuda 

Trinidad ..... 

West Indies 

Dutch Guiana . . . 
Newfoundland . . . 

Brazil 

Greenland 1 

Iceland 

West African Coast 

England 

Northern Ireland . 
Egypt 

Syria .... 

Iraq 

Lower Red Sea 



loco/ STANDARD Time 

5:00 AM 
5:30 
:00-7:00 
5:00 
6:00 
7:00 
10:00 
11:00 
11:00 
11:00 
11:00 
11:30 

12:00 Noon 
12:00 
12:00 
12:00 
12:00 

12:19:25 PM 
12:29 
1:00 PM 
00-2:00 PM 
3:00 
3:00 
4:00 
4:00 
6:00 
6:00 
7:00 



region 

India (except 

Calcutta) . . . 
Calcutta, India 

Burma 

Philippines . . . 
Australia 



Perth & West 
Australia 

Adelaide 

Darwin 

Sydney & 
Melbourne 
New Zealand . . 



7:00 
9:30 

9:53:21 PM 
10:30 

12:00 Midnight 
12:00 Mid. -2:00 AM 
next day 

12:00 Midnight 
1 :30 AM next day 
1 :30 AM next day 

2:00 AM next day 
3:30 AM next day 



PAGB 19 



-\ The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 




ja.\e it Winn rii 

You'll be seeing her overseas soon. She played bits 

in the movies until some smart director picked her for 

leading role in "Highways By Night/' The film will 
reach the troops in the near future, Jane comes from 
Youngstown, Ohio; was a photog's model in New York 
before she migrated West. Five-foot-five, 125, likes 
the outdoors and is single. 




YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 




(All pictures reviewed in this 
column are scheduled for distribu- 
tion to overseas forces by the Spe- 
cial Services. This is designed as 
a brief preview of what's in the 
works. ) 

THE INVADERS (Columbia) 

Eric Portman (a tough Nazi), 
Raymond Massie (a tougher Cana- 
dian private), Laurence Olivier (a 
French-Canadian trapper), Leslie 
Howard (a literary guy). 

Six Nazi fugitives from a U-boat 
land in Hudson Bay and try to beat 
their way to freedom across Can- 
ada. It proves, but not heavily, that 
we don't think and live like Nazis. 



an), WalCer Pidgeon (a London 
husband in the Blitz). This is one 
of the war's best movies so far. It's 
the spirit of ordinary people under 
fire. Recommended for men who 
think all the fighting is done by 
soldiers. 



KING'S ROW (Warner) 

Robert Cummings (hero), Ann 
Sheridan (a nice Irish dish), Ron- 
ald Regan (a small-town playboy), 
Claude Rains (a wise old doctor) 
Charles Coburn (a sadistic old doc- 
tor), Betty Fields (wacky daugh- 
ter of the wise old doctor). 

This one is about the private lives 
and conflicts in a small American 
town in the early 1900's. Don't let 
that deceive you. Plenty goes on, 
both wholesome and unwholesome. 



MAISIE GETS HER MAN (M-G-M) 

Ann Sothern (and you know 
what we mean), Red Skelton (fun- 
ny), Allen Jenkins, Donald Meek, 
Leo Gorcey, Fritz Feld, Rags Rag- 
land (all as crazy as you'd expect). 

This is a typical Maisie yarn. 
There's an Army camp sequence at 
the end that's good for a laugh and 
is strangely accurate for Holly- 
wood. The title tells the story. 



THE SPOILERS (Universal) 

Marlene Dietrich (herself), Ran- 
dolph Scott (manly), John Wayne 
(equally manly). 

This is blood-and-thunder stuff 
about the Yukon gold rush, fea- 
tures one of the nicest knock-down, 
drag-out fights ever screened. If 
you like action, if you like Dietrich, 
you'll cheer this. 



BROADWAY (Universal) 

George Raft (tough), Pat 
O'Brien (rough), Janet Blair (m- 
m-m-m), with good support by 
Brod Crawford, Anne Gwynne and 
Marjorie Rambeau. The treatment 
is novel since it is a biography of 
Raft. He is seen in the first part of 
the picture as himself. The story 
then cuts back to the "roaring '20s" 
to deal with the stage hit, "Broad- 
way." 



YANKEE DOODLE DANDY 
(Warner Brothers) 

James Cagney (Yankee), Joan 
Leslie (Dandy), Entire cast (good). 
"Yankee Doodle Dandy" tells the 
story of the life of George M. Cohan, 
and his theatrical triumphs on 
Broadway as a producer, writer, 
composer and star. It proves, with- 
out trying to, that this army needs 
a marching song. 



MRS. MINIVER (M-G-M) 

Greer Garson (a beautiful worn- 



TAKE A LETTER, DARLING 
(Paramount) 

Rosalind Russell (lervley), Fred 
MacMurray (she thinks he's cute, 
too), Robert Benchley (the busi- 
ness man ). 

This is about a dame advertising 
executive who falls flat on her face 
in love with her male secretary. 
Light as the crust on mother's pies, 
but good entertainment. 



That Ain't Hay 

The highest-paying audience in 
the history of any theater bought 
$5,500,000 worth of War Bonds to 
see the world premiere of "Yankee 
Doodle Dandy," motion picture 
story of the life of George M. Cohan, 
at the Hollywood Theater in New 
York. Prices ranged from bond 
purchases of $25 to purchases of 
$25,000 and the theater was filled 
to its 1,554 capacity. 




This Indiana girl who is making good out Hollywood way is Anne Baxter. She 
was chosen by Orson Welles for a starring role in his forthcoming "The Mag- 
nificent Ambersons." She is only five feet, weighs 110. 



Discord 

Sweet music will not con- 
sole the French, Adolf Hitler 
has learned. Der Fuehrer, a 
devotee of the Berlin Phil- 
harmonic, sent the orchestra 
to Nantes on the French coast 
to give a concert. The folks 
weren't interested. Fearful of 
humiliating their chief, storm 
troopers finally rounded up 
an audience. The orchestra 
played one piece and packed 
up its instruments. The audi- 
ence response had been ter- 
rific — all boos. 





Whether you're wooing a spirit- 
ed colleen under an emerald moon 
in North Ireland, rhapsodizing a 
dusky queen under a wavy palm 
in Honolulu, crooning in your best 
bath-house manner to a lovely lady 
in Darwin, or merely making a pass 
at a babe near the Brooklyn Navy 
Yard, you're going to have the best 
in music to help you along. 

That's the promise of RECORDS 
FOR OUR FIGHTING MEN, INC., 
a new non-profit organization com- 
posed of the world s top-flight mus- 
ical artists, which is rushing plans 
to supply U. S. servicemen all over 
the globe with the tops in current 
recorded melody. It will supply not 
only the records but the machines 
on which to play them. 

Kay Kyser, Lily Pons, Kate 
Smith, Benny Goodman, Gene 
Krupa and Richard Crooks are 
among those on the RFOFM roster. 

A drive is under way by hun- 
dreds of volunteer workers to col- 
lect 10 per cent of the 200,000,000 
used discs believed to be lying mute 
in American attics. The platters 
thus obtained will be sold to prom- 
inent recording companies whose 
experts will use the shellac to cut 
new ones, which will be sent to 
soldiers, sailors and marines wher- 
ever they are stationed, at home or 
abroad. 



Best Sellers 

FICTION 

The Moon Is Down, by John 

Steinbeck (Viking) 
And Now Tomorrow, by 

Rachel Field (Macmillan) 
Islandia, by Austin Wright 

(Farrar & Rhinehart) 
GENERAL 

The Last Time I Saw Paris, 
by Elliot Paul (Random 

House) 

Washington Is Like That, by 
W. M. Kiplinger (Harper) 

Victory Through Air Power, 
by Alexander P. Seversky 
(Simon & Schuster) 



HOOK 




PRIVATE PURKEY IN 

LOVE AND WAR 

By H. /. Phillips 

(Harper Brothers) 

"Dear Harriet — Just a couple of 
lines to let you know I've found out 
I'm not in Ireland after all . . 

Private Purkey has been in the 
Army for over a year, but he leads 
a life of utter confusion. His letters 
to his sweetheart, to his other girls, 
to his relatives are a chronicle of 
chaos. "All I know is that I am not 
on no transport because I still feel 
two good. And Sergeant Mooney is 
in fine health and as noisy as ever 
witch he wood not be if he was on 
the ocean." 

Where women are concerned his 
lines are tangled. Between a movie 
starlet and a covey of home-town 
correspondents, he has a strategist's 
nightmare trying to keep commu- 
nications open to his true love, 
Harriet. The offended sincerity of 
a soldier is echoed in "P.S. If the 
Army trusts me why can't you?" 

There's fast, familiar reading 
here. Mr. Phillips can write a fun- 
ny book about the Army without 
poaching on anybody's corn-field. 
This is it. 



MECHANIZED MIGHT 
By Maj. Paul C. Raborg 

(Whittlesey House) 

This will give you cold dope on 
the growth of motorized warfare, 
with special emphasis on the tank. 

As a sample, did you know Win- 
ston Churchill was one of the fa- 
thers of the modern tank? As First 
Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he 
authorized their construction by 
calling them "land battleships," a 
neat red-tapedodge. To keep the 
new weapon secret, the British re- 
ferred to it in all communications 
as a "water carrier." This was soon 
shortened to "tank" and the name 
stuck. 




"Didn't you tell me this hygiene movie 
was gonna be about bees and flowers?" 

PAGE 21 



^iNK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



SOLDIERS, SAILORS PLAY 
MAJOR LEAGUE ALL-STARS 



CLEVELAND — Lieut. Gordon 
Cochrane, U.S.N, (you used to call 
him Mickey, pal, but salute him 
now), has been chosen to pilot a 
service men's all-star baseball team 
in combat with a picked major 
league team here July 7. Sports 
writers predict it will rival the sev- 
enth game in a World Series as a 
drawing card. 

From 22 or more former big- 
leaguers in uniform, Lieut. Coch- 
rane believes he can train a crack 
squad. He has plenty of material — 
pitchers who can let loose like a 75 
mm., batters who have blasted 
veritable anti-aircraft barrages of 
baseballs in their day, and men like 
Hank Greenberg who can out- 
reach a barrage balloon any day 
in the Army seven-day week. 

The opposition — or the enemy, 
so to speak — will be chosen from 
both sides of two major league all- 
star teams which will play a twi- 
light game in New York the pre- 
ceding day. 

Bob Feller Is One 

To start with, Lieutenant Coch- 
rane will have three of the brighter 
stars of the game: Bob Feller, 
Cleveland's ace who is now in the 
Navy; Hank Greenberg, the hard- 
hitting Detroit first baseman and 
outfielder; and Cecil Travis, Wash- 
ington shortshop and runner - up 
last year for the American League 
batting championship. The latter 
two are Army. 

For mound duties, Cochrane also 
has service men Johnny Rigney, 
the former White Sox hurler; Bill 
Posedel, formerly of the Braves; 
Porter Vadghan, of the Athletics; 
Hugh Mulcahy, of the Phils, and 
John Grodzicki, ex-Cardinal. Other 
talent includes: 



PITCHING RECORDS 
AMERICAN LEAGUE 



G. IP. 

Ilonham, N. Y. 8 71 
Hay nex, Chicago .10 26 
Horowy. N Y. 6 39 
Bridffd, Detroit 'J 7'< 
Chandler, N. Y. 7 &«J 



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2M 17 26 3 
T>2 25 33 7 
M 23 23 6 



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NATIONAL LEAGUE 



Q« IP. 

French, Hklyn 11 37 
DftVift, Hklyn. 9 70 

Wyatt. Hklyn . 9 SO 
Starr, Cincin. 11 02 
TuKt. Bwton . 11 53 



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LEADING BATTERS 




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LEAGUE 








G. 


AH. H. 


H. 


PC. 


Gordon, NY 


43 


164 24 


64 


.390 


[)tx:rr, Boston 


40 


1 01 19 


59 


.305 


Dickey. N. Y. 


28 


100 10 


36 


.350 


Spencc. Wanh. 


4M 


201 31 


r,9 


.3 43 


Fleming, Cleve. 


40 


177 20 


CO 


.339 


NATIONAL 


LEAGUE 








G. 


A.B. R. 


EL 


PC. 


Phclpn, Pitts. 


91 


90 io 


31 


.373 


Reiner, Brooklyn 


10 


158 


55 


,040 


Owen, Brooklyn 


34 


!»H 17 


91 


,337 


Medwick, Brooklyn 


44 


101 20 


53 


.329 


LaManno, Cinrin. 


34 


110 13 


06 


.327 



HOME RUNS 
AMERICAN LEAGUE 



William*. Bonton 

York. Detroit 
DiMaggio, New York 



15 
13 
10 



NATIONAL LEAGUE 



F. llcCormick. Cincinnati 9 

Marshall. New York 8 

Camilli, Brooklyn 8 



Catchers — Ken Sylvestri (Yan- 
kees), Don Padgett (Cardinals) 
and Joe Grace (Browns). Grace 
also played the outfield, and Pad- 
gett has doubled in leather in the 
infield and the outfield as well. 

Infielders — Henry (Cookie) La- 
vagetto, from the 49th state known 
as Brooklyn; Benny McCoy (Ath- 
letics); Johnny Sturm (Yankees)*; 
George Archie, Johny Lucadello 
and Johnny Beradino (Browns), 
and Al Brancato (Athletics). 

Outfielders — Sam Chapman 
(Athletics); Buddy Lewis (Sena- 
tors, Pat Mullin (Detroit), Carvel 
CBama) and Rowell (Braves). 

Mickey hopes he can get his play- 
ers ofT duty for a week's practice 
before the game, but he will throw 
his team together a few seconds be- 
fore game time, if necessary. 



Foxx in New Lair 

Jimmy Foxx, veteran of 18 
American League campaigns, 
made an inauspicious debut 
in the National League on 
June 4, following his sale by 
the Boston Red Sox to the 
Chicago Cubs. He lifted an 
easy pop-fly in a pinch-hitting 
role. 

Foxx will take over first 
base from Glen Russell, who 
will be shifted to the Cub out- 
field. 

Another veteran American 
Leaguer, Catcher Frank 
Hayes, changed an Athletic 
uniform for the flannels of 
the fast-stepping St. Louis 
Browns. Connie Mack got 
Catcher Bob Swift and Pitch- 
er Bob Harris in exchange. 
First string maskman for the 
A\s now is Hal Wagner, 27- 
year-old Duke alumnus. 




Johnny Mize of the Giants slides home as the ball takes its time getting to Catcher Livingston of 
the Phils. The New York boys defeated Philadelphia by a score of 3 to 2, continuing a winning 
streak that puts them high on the list for the Service game — if they can catch up. 



SI'OIITS II Kit*: AMI I III III 



Pinch hitters in Cincinnati seem 
to stick close to the formula of 
"Casey at the Bat." Of 31 men on 
the special slugging detail this year, 
only two have made safe hits. Only 
six even poked the ball out of the 
infield. 



of bounds and the lucky shot was 
a penalty repeat. 



The Office of Defense Transpor- 
tation has banned special trains to 
race tracks. 



14 Major Leaguers 
In Uniforms Soon 

Fourteen major league baseball 
players soon may swap their club- 
owned flannels for G.I. khaki or 
Navy blue. Most of them have been 
classified 1A in the military draft. 

An equal number are likely to 
be reclassified and made eligible 
for military service. 

The pennant races this year may 
well be decided by the draft calls. 
The draft is close to Pee Wee Reese 
at Brooklyn, and to Enos Slaughter, 
St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting 
outfielder. 

Yanks May Lose Henrich 

The first division hopes of the 
Boston Red •Sox revolve around 
Johnnie Pesky, the star rookie 
shortstop who may put on a khaki 
uniform. Even the star-studded 
New York Yankees would miss 
Tommy Henrich. The Reds may 
lose Ray Lammano, rookie catcher. 

The Red Sox soon will be de- 
prived of Ted Williams, the Amer- 
ican League batting king, who has 
volunteered for Naval service. 

Two Detroit players, Catcher 
George Tebbetts and Outfielder 
Barney McCosky are unmarried 
but currently in 3A because of de- 
pendents. Other Detroiters in 3A, 
but possibly subject to re-classifi- 
cation since they are married but 
have no children, are Pitcher Hal 
White, Infielder Murray Franklin 
and Outfielders Bob Patrick and 
Ned Harris. 

Most of the other major leaguers 
are in 3A, but many of the young 
married players without children 
are likely to be re-classified to 1A. 

Major leaguers now in 1A: 

AMERICAN LEAGUE — Out- 
fielder Tommy Henrich, New York; 
Shortstop Johnnie Pesky> Boston; 
Third Baseman Bob Kennedy and 
Pitcher.John Rigney, Chicago, and 
Pitcher'Newman Shirley, Philadel- 
phia. 

NATIONAL LEAGUE — Out- 
fielder Willard Marshall and In- 
fielder Babe Young, New York; 
Outfielder Enos Slaughter, St. 
Louis; Infielders Sebby Sisti and 
Lou Gremp and Pitchers Tom Ear- 
ly, Lou Tost and Art Johnson of 
Boston. 

Horse racing, which has been 
called a laggard on Army-Navy 
Relief, took a deep breath last 
weekend at Belmont and an- 
nounced that,- after returns were 
in from the all-service Saturday 
show, racing's contributions to the 
war chest were crowding the half- 
million mark. 



Huck Geary, Minneapolis short- 
stop is watched by the Giants. He's 
a hitter and they have him tagged 
as "another Rizzuto." 



"Flash" Gordon of the Yanks is 
in a hitting streak that for early 
season form rivals the 59-game 
record of Joe DiMaggio. Gordon has 
already hit safely in 24 consecutive 
games. 



The whole Yank club is whittling 
at records. It has boosted the home 
run total to 34, and its double-play 
tally for the year to date is a 
wholesome 69. 



On the hole-in-one front at Lan- 
caster, Pa., Bob Eicholtz saw his 
drive dribble into the cup, but he 
still had to score a three on his 
card. His first two drives were out 



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PAGE 22 



YANK The Army Newspaper • JUNE 17 



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V-for-Victory Ball 
Fools Yanks 1 Foes 



FT. BRAGG— There's been considerable debate as to what part Ameri- 
can sports should play in the war program. One group thinks organized 
sport should be abolished until Berlin and Tokyo are parade grounds for 
American soldiers. Another thinks sports should be expanded for the sake 
of national morale. In between is a majority which keeps on going to the 
games and the tracks without thinking much about the principle one way 
or another. 



What the soldier thinks about it 
is a matter of conjecture, but one 
thing seems certain. When a soldin 
;ets a chance to go to a ball game 
he goes, and if he doesn't have a 
chance to go he reads the score in 
the papers, and if he can't get the 
score he WOnderfi about it and hopes 
that this, at last, is the pennant year 
for his pet club. 

Baseball and boxing have earned 
praise in the press for their contri- 
butions to the Army Relief Fund. 
Mike Jacobs' fight shows have been 
quite unlike the old benefits where 
the beneficiary got "10 per cent off 

the top," which turned out In most 
cases to be like the top on beer, 
mostly foam. 

m 




Blue Monday Money 

The Little promoters have pitched 
in, too. Many a small fight club has 
stretched its shoestring to the limit 
to put on a good attraction for the 
army. 

Major league baseball has been 
both good and bad. A few clubs 
have used blue Monday games 
against cellar opposition for the re- 
lief fund — and saved the creamy 
crucial battles for the Homb for Re- 
tired Baseball Magnates. 

The New York Giants and the 
Brooklyn Dodgers have made a 
bigger-than-usual gesture. Their 
struggles always draw large crowds 
anyway at the usual $1.10 a head, 
but Brooklyn, with its flair for the 
unusual, collected not only from 
the customers but also from the 
baseball writers, the players, the 
umpires and the getcha-redhots 
boys. Some persons bought tickets 
and did not attend the game. 

War Comes First 

However, it will take more than 
a willingness to contribute funds to 
keep professional sports on any- 
thing like a business -as -usual 
basis. An omen of the future is 
the banning of night baseball in 
coastal cities as part of the anti- 
submarine effort. Where sports in- 
terfere with the war, they're out. 

Two important points should be 
made: First, the commander-in- 
chief has given baseball the green 
light. Second* untold numbers of 
those under him — in other words, 
we guys in uniform — follow every- 
body from the big leagues down to 
the bottom bushes. When these 
fans — and only these — decide that 
professional sports should close up 
shop for the duration, they ought 
to stop even if the Yankees and 
Dodgers are in the ninth inning of 
the seventh game of the World 
Series. 

Racing has taken some heavy 
raps because it hasn't seemed as 



yet to have done as much for army 
and navy relief as some other 
sports, but it has promised a $2,- 
000,000 contribution and may soon 
move into high gear on this prom- 
ise. 




— & 



Antidote to War Nerves 

Racing is obviously not condi- 
tioning anybody for military serv- 
ice, but it relieves the strain of war 
nerves. This is proved by the at- 
tendance and betting records it's 
setting despite gasoline rationing 
and the fact that the fans don't have* 
as many spare afternoons as they 
used to. 

Nobody need fear that the mili- 
tary chiefs are going to let sports 
go to excess. The closing of Santa 
Anita racetrack, the banning of 
night baseball and the recent stern 
message to Belmont Park racetrack 
to fix up its air raid precautions or 
else, show that control will be ex- 
erted. It might be a good idea to 
leave that controlling up to the 
military instead of. to those strange 
crusaders who always pop up when 
there's a chance to knock off a few 
amusements in the name of prog- 
ress. 




Ask the New York Yankees about 
"V for Victory" and they'll point 
out the first and second fingers on 
the steam-shovel light hand of K\ 
nie Bonham. Those two fingers put 
the blitz on almost every enemy bat 
in the American League until tin* 

Cleveland Indians broke Bonham 
eight-game winning streak June 7. 

Bonham used his victory grip 
when the batter had him on the 
short end of the count. The slow 
twisting pitch, used instead of the 
curve, which Ernie admits was 
never much good, has fooled Ted 
Williams, Jimmy Foxx and many 
other American League sluggers. 



LOUIS NEEDS BENEFIT BOUT— FOR SELF 



NEW YORK — Cpl. Joe Louis 
Barrow, who has donated the pro- 
ceeds of his recent fights to Army 
and Navy relief funds, would like 
to have another bout soon — this 
time for his own benefit. He needs 
the dough. 

The Collector of Internal Reve- 
nue has been waiting for Joe to 
come around with $117,000 in 1941 
income taxes. Joe went to see Jo- 
seph T. Higgins, the tax collector, 
but he didn't take the 117 grand. 

Things are tough right now, Joe 
told Mr. Higgins. His farm is run- 
ning at a loss and he is making only 
$54 a month from the army, which 
is a very small drop in a very large 
bucket. He didn't make a dime out 
of his last two fights, with Buddy 
Bacr and Abe Simon, because he 
donated both purses, totaling $85,- 
000, to Army and Navy relief. 
Pay Up or Else 

Mr. Higgins was sympathetic. He 
gave Joe until July 15 to pay up. 
The corporal is privileged to ask 
for an exemption on the tax pay- 
ment until six months after his dis- 
charge from the Army, but he'd 
rather pay it now. 

Joe would like to take on Pvt. 
Billy Conn in what would be the 
first intra-Army world's heavy- 
weight championship bout in his- 
tory. However, if the Pittsburgh 
Irishman's injured hand won't per- 
mit it, Louis is willing to risk his 
title against such civilian challen- 



gers as Bob Pastor, Melio Bettina 
or Lee Savold. 

Legal difficulties also bother the 
champion. A Chicago attorney en- 
tered suit for $10,500 fees against 
Joe, an aftermath of Mrs. Louis 1 
contemplated divorce action last 
year. Although Joe won the first 
round last week when a Federal 
judge ruled out the suit until after 
the war, he faces the legal action 
when he leaves the Army. 

That Ain't True 
What They Say 

The Axis rumor boys have been 
staying up nights thinking of clever 
stories about the Yanks. Here's one 
that came over the air from "neu- 
tral" Lisbon recently. 

"Several American aviators, ap- 
parently seeking romance and ex- 
citement in a city somewhere in 
western China, entered a Chinese 
theatev where they saw a beautiful 
dancing girl in a stage play. The 
so-called 'Flying Tigers 1 in cowboy 
fashion kidnaped the girl and went 
for a moonlight ride in a jeep, only 
to find that 'she' was a female im- 
personator." 



Sam Parks, 1935 U.S. open golf 
king, was defeated in the Hale 
American qualifying rounds. Parks 
lost the play-off he needed to qual- 
ify after tying Ted Huge, pro from 
South Euclid, Ohio. 



SPORTS 
SHORTS 



Chief Petty Ofli<< m Sam Chap- 
man, who patrolled the outer gar 

dens for Connie Mack's Athletics 
until he enlish <1 in the Navy early 
this year, is taking a voluntary 
"bust" to seaman, second class, to 
get a crack at Navy flight training. 
Sam, who has been a physical in- 
structor at the Norfolk, Va., naval 
base, will seek a commission in the 
Naval Reserve Air Corps when he 
reports later for training at a Wash- 
ington aviation base. 

Ring rumors say that Pvt. Bar- 
ney Ross, now at the Marine Corps 
Barracks, San Diego, may get a 
crack at his old welterweight title 
now that Boatswain's Mate Red 
Cochrane, the present 145-pound 
king, has been transferred from 
Newport, R. I., to the West Coast. 
. . . Lew Elverson, PentVs "Destiny 
Backfield" ace and later grid coach 
at Swarthmore, is now with Lt. 
Comdr. Tom Hamilton's Naval Air 
Fitness group at Annapolis. 

Coaching the Camp Edwards, 
Mass., baseball squad is Pvt. Hugh 
Mulcahy, the Phillies 1 mound ace 
who was the first big league player 
to trade his diamond flannels for 
O.D.'s. Mulcahy has an able assist- 
ant coach in Jumpin' Joe Dugan, 
former Yank third baseman, who 
was assigned to the job in a civilian 
status. 

The Army bowed to the Navy in 
the* recent National PGA golf tour- 
ney at Atlantic City when Sam 
Snead topped Cpl. Jim Turnesa of 
Fort Dix, two and one, in the Anal 
round. Sam has been sworn in but 
hasn't been called to duty in the 
Navy yet. 

For the first time in history, the 
1942 service classic between the 
Naval Academy and West Point 
will be broadcast under commercial 
sponsorship. The $100,000 paid by 
Standard Oil of N. J. for radio 
rights of the game in Municipal 
Stadium, Philadelphia, Nov. 28, 
will be split between the Army 
Emergency Fund and the Navy Re- 
lief Society. 

Purdue's 1942 gridiron slate in- 
cludes two games with service 
teams, the Camp Shelby, Miss., 
eleven and the Great Lakes Naval 
Training Station team. 

Two Sports Carnivals 

Will Aid War Funds 

new york —War relief fundi 
will benefit in June from two big 
sports events, one an All-Sports 
Carnival to be held at the Polo 
Grounds June 14 and the other the 
American Athletic Union's 55th na- 
tional outdoor track and field meet, 
at Triborough Stadium June 19-20. 

In the carnival Cpl. Joe Louis 
Barrow and his sparring partner, 
George Nichols, will give a four- 
round exhibition; an all-star Army 
baseball team, with Bob Feller 
pitching, will play the Norfolk 
Naval Training Base; Craig Wood, 
national open golf champ, will 
compete in an accuracy driving test 
against the Army's three golfing 
corporals, Vic Ghezzl, Ed Oliver 
and Joe Turnesa; and on the tennis 
courts Don Budge and Alice Marble 
will be matched against Wayne 
Sabin and Frank Shields. 

In the track meet, Greg Rice, 
Connie Warmerdam, Al Blozis and 
and Johnny Borican will defend 
their national track titles, and the 
New York Americans will meet the 
Brookhattans in soccer. 



PAGE 23 





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NEWSPAPER 




War-Time Vacation Tip 



Harley Archie Olson had a won- 
derful vacation. The 22-year-old 
ship's radio operator spent it fishing 
from an old settee he had rigged 
up. At the end of 29 days he was 
fat and tanned. He felt like a mil- 
lion bucks. 

It was odd that Olson should look 
so well, because his "vacation"' was 
spent on a raft. On April 19 his 
ship was torpedoed, and he spent 
nearly a month lolling contentedly 
on the bosoms of a surprisingly 
friendly sea. 

The F.B.I, couldn't understand it. 
According to all information on 
the subject. Olson should have been 
dead, or at least a babbling wreck. 
The F.B.I, wanted to ask questions. 

"Are you sure you weren't sent 
from a German submarine?" 

"Aw. sure." 

Olson explained what had hap- 
pened. He put a lot of wreckage ^to- 
gether and made a seaworthy raft. 
He even found an old settee which 
he pulled aboard. For 29 days he 
fishing and napped. His fishing 
tackle was a net made of bandages 
from a first-aid kit. k, I caught all 
kinds of fish/' he said. "All small 
of course. Mackerels, her- 
and some peculiar varieties, 
thing is. I had to eat them 



was nervous. Gentle waves rocked 
me to sleep every night." 



ones, 
rings. 
Only 

raw.' 

"Did you think you'd be picked 

the F.B.I, wanted to know. 
'Aw. sure," said Olson. "I never 



up ,r 



Another Xame for Him 

You've called the company 
bugler a lot of things in your 
time, but from now on in 
mixed company he's known as 
a "trumpeter." 

That's official, and comes 
from the War Department 
Bureau of Public Relations. 
Puckered lips isn't all that 
qualifies a good trumpeter. He 
must also have one hell of a 
memory because the rules re- 
quire him to know bv heart 41 
G.I. calls. 

In addition to the one that 
gets us up in the morning, 
puckerlips — trumpeter to 
you — must know a good many 
fancy cadenzas. One is Over- 
coats, a notification that the 
formation to follow will be in 
overcoats, even if it's in Lib- 
ya. Another is School Call, 
which trumpets you into class- 
rooms for heavy brainwork. 
Another, that you ought to re- 
member as well as the trum- 
peter, is Pay Day. That's fol- 
lowed by the call in hotlips 
known as "Roll the Bones" 
but that last one isn't in the 
manual. 



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